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Vietnamese people The Vietnamese people ( vi, người Việt, lit=Viet people) or Kinh people ( vi, người Kinh) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China (Jing Islands, Dongxing, Guangxi). The native la ...
are
Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
's largest South East Asian community, comprising 1.16% of the total population. Areas and localities with significant populations are mostly in the former East Berlin, for instance,
Lichtenberg Lichtenberg () is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen. Overview The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin ...
, where people of Vietnamese origin make up 11.8% of the population. Other areas with large numbers of Vietnamese are Mitte,
Marzahn-Hellersdorf Marzahn-Hellersdorf () is the tenth borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf. Geography It is situated in the northeast of Berlin. Marzahn-Hellersdorf borders to the Berlin boroughs of Lichte ...
, and Neukölln. As of 2014 the German Federal Foreign Office estimated that Berlin had 20,000 Vietnamese people, the largest group of East Asians in Germany. Many Vietnamese operate (late night convenience stores in Berlin), flower shops, and restaurants in the city.Grenier, Elizabeth.
Berlin's little Vietnam reflects a divided city
(). '' Deutsche Welle''. 27 March 2014. Retrieved on 11 February 2016.


History

In the 1980s, Vietnamese immigrants came to East Berlin as temporary contract workers (''Vertragsarbeiter''),Furlong, Ray.
Hard times for Vietnamese Germans
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. Wednesday 15 February 2006. Retrieved on 11 February 2016. as part of a deal between the East German government and the Communist government of Vietnam. South Vietnamese who fled the
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instead came to
West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...
.Anderson, Matthew.
Berlin’s kitschy and flavourful Little Vietnam
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. 12 June 2012. Retrieved on 11 February 2016. Many Vietnamese remained in Berlin even though they lost their legal residence statuses and jobs after the
fall of the Berlin Wall The fall of the Berlin Wall (german: Mauerfall) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain and one of the series of eve ...
in 1989. The residence permits of other Vietnamese only permitted them to live in East Germany, even after reunification. In the 1990s many Vietnamese who lived in the now-unified Berlin began establishing small businesses. Vietnamese who lived in other parts of former East Germany, such as Chemnitz,
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, moved to Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.


Geography

As of 2014 many Vietnamese live in
Lichtenberg Lichtenberg () is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen. Overview The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin ...
,
Marzahn Marzahn () is a locality within the borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf in Berlin. Berlin's 2001 administrative reform led to the former boroughs of Marzahn and Hellersdorf fusing into a single new borough. In the north the Marzahn locality inclu ...
, and other neighborhoods which had housing for Vietnamese contract workers during the East German era.


Ethnicity

The Vietnamese community is not a homogenous one, because one quarter of Vietnamese migrants in Berlin and Germany are Hoa (a Chinese minority in Vietnam). The rest mostly consist of
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Kinh The Vietnamese people ( vi, người Việt, lit=Viet people) or Kinh people ( vi, người Kinh) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China (Jing Islands, Dongxing, Guangxi). The native lang ...
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Economy

Dong Xuan Market in Lichtenberg is the centre of Vietnamese economic activity in the city. The first major Vietnamese restaurant to offer
Pho Phở or pho (, , ; ) is a Vietnamese soup dish consisting of broth, rice noodles (), herbs, and meat (usually beef (), sometimes chicken ()). Phở is a popular food in Vietnam where it is served in households, street stalls and restaurants ...
in Berlin was Monsieur Vuong; after its opening more Germans began patronizing Vietnamese restaurants. Prior to Monsieur Vuong's opening, Berlin restaurants operated by Vietnamese had fusion cuisine with Thai influences.


History


References

{{Overseas Vietnamese Asian diaspora in Germany Vietnamese diaspora in Europe Ethnic groups in Berlin *