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The making of Hmong America : forty years after the secret war
\"This study examines the Hmong community's role in the US war in Laos and their eventual resettlement in the United States. In particular, it analyzes their process of acculturation into American society since the 1970s, their reception by the American people and government, and the creation of Hmong enclaves throughout the country.'
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The making of Hmong America
This study documents Hmong’s involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. At the time, Hmong and other highlander refugees from Laos were considered unsuitable to be resettled into the United States. He provides detailed research on the adaptation of Hmong Americans to their new lives in the United States, facing discrimination and prejudice, and the advancement of Hmong Americans over the past 40 years. He presents the Hmong American community as an uprooted refugee community that grew from a small population in 1975 to more than 300,000 by the year 2015; spreading to all 50 states while becoming a diverse and complex American ethnic community. To get better insight into their diversity, complexity, and adaptation to different localities, Kou Yang uses the Hmong communities in Montana, Fresno and Denver as case studies. The progress of Hmong Americans over the past 4 decades is highlighted with a list of many achievements in education, high-tech, academia, political participation, the military and other fields. Readers of this book will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges, complex and diverse experience of the Hmong American community. They will also obtain insight into the overall experience of the Hmong, an ethnic people of Diaspora, found in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Europe. They are like bristle-cone pines on the rock that have been exposed to all types of weather, climate and conditions, but they won't die.
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Witnesses to a secret war
Tells the stories of three generations of Hmong refugees as they struggle with their personal and political legacies.
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Legal Adaptation Among Vietanmese Refugees in the United States: How International Migrants Litigate Civil Grievances During the Resettlement Process
This article examines an overlooked dimension of adaptation among international migrants: how they use the host society's legal system to seek redress for grievances that arise during the resettlement process. The article terms this process legal adaptation and focuses on foreign-born plaintiffs in civil litigation. A sample (N=137) of state and federal civil cases with at least one Vietnamese litigant is used to analyze the temporal patterns in legal adaptation among Vietnamese refugees from 1975 to 1994. Several aspects of Vietnamese litigation match their macro-level resettlement process, such as civil rights and intraethnic litigation occurring later than other types of cases. But civil suits with a Vietnamese plaintiff and a native defendant tended to occur earlier than civil suits with a native plaintiff and a Vietnamese defendant. The article identifies the role of legal organizations and international grievances as the sources of Vietnamese refugees' rapid legal adaptation.
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Health of Cambodian Refugees
Cambodian refugees have been entering the United States since 1975, with the largest numbers arriving in the early 1980s. While many adjusted satisfactorily to their new environment, many continue having severe difficulty with the resettlement. Studies show that Cambodians are suffering more physical and mental distress than Vietnamese, Hmong, and Laotians. They are experiencing more financial and social distress, as well. This paper describes a small neighborhood home visiting program established 13 years ago to provide follow-up care for Cambodian refugees seen in a University Medical Center and later serving as a community experience for fourth-year medical students. These close contacts with the Cambodian community indicate that for many, especially those who are aging, both health and adjustment appear to be deteriorating. Chronic illnesses and prolonged severe depression are taking the place of the infectious diseases and the personal health problems, like dental disease, that they brought with them when they resettled in America. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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The Fresno Bee, Calif., Rick Bentley column
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