Constructing a Social Problem: Suicide, Acculturation, and the Hmong [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2007 Between September 1998 and May 2001, eight Hmong teenagers took their own lives in one urban community. Newspaper accounts attempted to establish the suicides as an outgrowth of problems brought about by the Hmong immigration to the United States.
Machiline Xiong, Paul Jesilow
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Growing Up Hmong American: Truancy Policy and Girls [PDF]
, 1997 In 1994, 60 Minutes and the Atlantic Monthly portrayed Hmong and other Southeast Asian youth as gangsters, delinquents, and overall low achievers. Since then, the image of the Southeast Asian as gangster has proliferated.
MayKao Yangblongsua Hang
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Diaspora and the Predicament of Origins: Interrogating Hmong Postcolonial History and Identity [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2007 This paper examines two basic issues that have been of major concern to the Hmong in the diaspora: (1). What is their historical and geographic origin; and (2) are the Hmong part of the Miao nationality in China, and should they accept being known under ...
Gary Yia Lee
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Financial Management in Hmong Immigrant Families: Change and Adaptation [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2007 This study examined family financial management in the Hmong community through the analysis of 11 in-depth interviews with Hmong professionals who worked in the area of finance.
Pa Nhia D. Yang, Catherine A. Solheim
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From Miao to Miaozu -- Alterity in the Formation of Modern Ethnic Groups [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2009 In China, the Miao ethnic group has been known for its long and tragic history. This image, however, was formed only during the modern era. Using a historiographical approach, this paper reviews and analyzes the process through which the Chinese Miao ...
Zhiqiang Yang
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The Role of New Media in Multicultural Australia: A Study of Thai, Rohingya and Hmong Communities
ATHENS JOURNAL OF MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS, 2014 In becoming a part of Australia’s multicultural community, members of ethnic minorities need to communicate and stay connected with their friends, family and others in Australia in order to ensure their community cohesion. In the 1990s, mobile devices in turn underwent another major technological innovation—access to the internet.
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Minority status and schooling of the Hmong in Vietnam [PDF]
, 2013 This study examines the disproportionately poor academic performance of the Hmong among the minorities in Vietnam by using Ogbu’s cultural ecological theory (Ogbu, 2003). Societal and school factors have been assumed by many policy makers and scholars to
Minh Phuong Luong
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Hmong College Student Perceptions and Experiences with Mercury Containing Skin Lightening Products in St. Paul Minnesota [PDF]
, 2018 This study examines the behaviors, experiences, and attitudes towards skin lightening products of Hmong college students in Saint Paul, Minnesota during Fall of 2017.
Susi Keefe
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Hmong Studies JournalThis article provides an analysis of changes in Hmong American employment status, income, poverty and public assistance rates and educational attainment over time using 2016-2020 American Community Survey PUMS and 2020 Census data.
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Of Pride and Pencils: Deconstructing the Role of Ethnic Pride in Hmong Adolescent Identity Formation [PDF]
, 2013 This study examines the ways that Hmong adolescents describe ethnic pride and how their descriptions are informed by perceptions of collective and social identities.
Jacqueline Nguyen
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