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Research Note: The Hmong in America: Twenty-Five Years after the U.S. Secret War in Laos

2001; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/jaas.2001.0019

1097-2129

Kou Yang,

Labor Movements and Unions

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of recent Hmong history in America, and it is also twenty-five years after the end of the U.S. secret war in Laos, which resulted in the coming to America of many Hmong from Laos. To get a better Hmong perspective on their American experience, I gathered information from key members of the Hmong American community, the available literature, the Fifth Hmong National Conference in 1999, and my own observation and research from my many roles and activities, including my summer 1999 tour of the Hmong in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, and California. I am a former social worker and a current member of the faculty of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Stanislaus.