Vietnamese community in Paris

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A Vietnamese restaurant on Avenue de Choisy in the Quartier Asiatique of the 13th arrondissement.
The Temple du Souvenir Indochinois in the Bois de Vincennes, erected in 1907, is a monument built by the earliest waves of Vietnamese migrants to France.

Paris is home to the oldest Overseas Vietnamese community in the Western world and is also one of the largest outside Vietnam. There are an estimated 70,000 people of Vietnamese descent within the city limits of Paris as of 2018,[1] with the greater Île-de-France area home to another estimated 100,000. Both figures make the Paris metropolitan area host to one of the greatest concentrations of Vietnamese outside Vietnam.[2] They contains Vietnamese born- people that living in Paris (France) or French born-citizens of partially or full Vietnamese descent.

In periods before 1975 several Vietnamese arrived in Paris, including intellectuals, those who worked as civil servants in colonial times, and those who came to Paris to study and did not return home. Ethnic Vietnamese arriving after 1975 became a part of an ethnic network established by those that came before them. Many Vietnamese achieved proficiency in the medical, scientific, and computer science fields.[3]

  1. ^ Người Việt trẻ ở Pháp níu giữ thế hệ thứ hai với nguồn cội, VnExpress, 31 March 2018. (in Vietnamese)
  2. ^ Góc nhỏ ở Paris (in Vietnamese) Archived September 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Guillon, Michelle. "The Chinese and Chinese Districts in Paris" (Chapter 11). In: Sinn, Elizabeth (editor). The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas. Hong Kong University Press, 1 January 1998. ISBN 9622094465, 9789622094468. CITED: p. 190.