Amerasian

plural Amerasians

1. A person of mixed American and Asian parentage, especially if their father was an American serviceman or temporary resident stationed in Asia.

   The Amerasian's spouse and minor, unmarried children are eligible to immigrate along with him or her.

   2010, Ilona Bray, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Ruby Lieberman, How to Get a Green Card, Nolo, page 156

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   I am an Amerasian, why am I not allowed to stay here legally? Why do you try to keep me out, why do you discriminate against me?

   1995, Steven DeBonis, Children of the enemy: oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and their mothers, McFarland, page 125

   By contrast, the average age of the Amerasian AHA immigrant arriving in America was seventeen – about one year younger than the average age of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam during the war.

   2005, Trin Yarborough, Surviving twice: Amerasian children of the Vietnam War, Brassey's

1. not comparableOf mixed American and Asian parentage.

   In the mid-1960s, a letter arrives from his Amerasian son, now twelve years old and victimized by poverty […]

   1998, Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: a cultural biography, Cambridge University Press, page 365

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   Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.

   1980, Geo, volume 2, number 2, page 80

   Interestingly, however (and fortunately for the children), Amerasian parentage held virtually no stigma in the Philippines, in contrast to the situation in other Asian nations such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam […]

   2004, Anni P. Baker, American soldiers overseas: the global military presence, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 119