Amerasian

a person of Asian and American parentage, especially the child of an Asian mother and a U.S. serviceman. "Amerasian" was coined during the Korean War but came into wider use during the Vietnam War. Because U.S. servicemen come from various backgrounds, there is no specific racial connotation to Amerasian, except that it is assumed one parent, usually the mother, is Asian. Most Amerasian children were left behind and were discriminated against by the Vietnamese people and the government, who saw them as reminders of the American presence in Vietnam (Lan Cao and Himilce Novas, Everything You Need to Know About Asian-American History), and also by the U.S. government, which, unlike the French, didn't confer citizenship on the children of soldiers. In 1987, the United States passed the Amerasian Homecoming Act to facilitate the transfer to American soil of Vietnamese Amerasians born between January 1, 1962, and January 1, 1977.