Tag: refugee
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For Asian Americans in the Midwest, the census is a new — and difficult — challenge
Pradhan said those of Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese descent were among the first refugee groups to settle in Iowa. In the last decade, refugees from Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Bhutan have … Read Full Article
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40 years on, refugees still feel warm embrace of their sponsors
Chong Lee with wife Bao and daughter Ka at the refugee camp in Thailand in 1978. (SUPPLIED PHOTO) Lee-Paine’s father, Chong Lee, and mother, Bao, were among the Hmong minority who had fled persecution … Read Full Article
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Southeast Asian community faces uphill battle for mental health
According to Zack Darrah, director of Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM), the most closely related word for “mental health” in the Lao and Hmong languages is “crazy person.” “There a… Read Full Article
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Hmong: The Struggle of the Third Generation of Refugees over their Cultural Identity
Neng Thao, a Harvard-educated Hmong American refugee, has attracted thousands of followers on Facebook after sharing his hopes and dreams on the social media platform. Highlighting the identity strugg… Read Full Article
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Thailand Aims to Reform Tough Refugee Policy After Saudi Asylum Case
Among them, many are Pakistani Christians, Montagnard and Hmong Christians from Vietnam, or North Korean Christians. They are often locked in Immigration Detention Center (IDC), with crowded space and … Read Full Article
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Minnesota adds two new Hmong-American judges to the bench
As a 13-year-old immigrant in St. Paul in the late 1980s, Pao Paul Yang was responsible for filling out his parents’ health care benefits and other paperwork. Soon, the former Thai refugee camp reside… Read Full Article
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Milwaukee Likely Has Largest Rohingya Refugee Community In US
It’s a majority-minority city, in which Asians make up about 3.8 percent of the population. The majority are Hmong. In fact, the Milwaukee area is home to the fourth largest concentration of Hmong peo… Read Full Article
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Former Amazon worker Kao Xiong admits sending bizarre bomb threats to Donald Trump and US ex-presidents, warning of ‘Unstoppable Force’ group
The Minneapolis Star Tribune, in Minnesota where Xiong once lived, reported that he was a Hmong refugee, born in a Thai refugee camp in 1984, who moved to the US in 1999 with his parents. Court docume… Read Full Article
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Refugee hero MacAlan ‘Mac’ Thompson dies at 77
Long-time resident and US citizen MacAlan “Mac” Thompson, a quiet hero to Hmong and other post-war Indochinese refugees, died Monday at his home in Pathum Thani’s Lam Luk Ka district. He died after a … Read Full Article
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The true meaning of volunteering and service
When Yang came across these markings as a child, he began to comprehend how his family’s home, and the physical and emotional stability it offered him and his Hmong refugee parents, came to be — thank… Read Full Article
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How a Syrian refugee family with no prospects became entrepreneurs after moving to California
Article Continued Below Meanwhile, a 2016 study by the institute that followed Bosnian, Burmese, Hmong and Somali refugees found that they, too, moved up the occupational ladder and started businesses … Read Full Article
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CR holds reading party for collection of memoirs
Arranged by theme, the memoirs include the experiences of a correctional officer at Pelican Bay State Prison, a Yurok elder who joined the Fish Wars and a Hmong woman born in a refugee camp and marrie… Read Full Article
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College of the Redwoods Hosting Book Release Party and Reading
A Yurok elder who joined the Fish Wars talks about her exclusion as a young girl from white society, while a Hmong woman born in a refugee camp and married at a young age describes her fight with scho… Read Full Article
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Writing Center coordinator receives literary honor as emerging children’s writer
She now lives outside the Twin Cities and is at work on her latest project, a middle grade novel about two Hmong refugee brothers in search of their grandfather’s magical treasure stuck in the spirit … Read Full Article
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Minnesota man reflects on journey from refugee to dentist
Dr. Kou Vang entered the examination room of his Frogtown office, switched smoothly from English to Hmong, and spoke to Evan in a calm, reassuring voice. It’s a method he has perfected over the past 2… Read Full Article
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Immigration to US Quickly Westernizes Gut Microbiome
Many immigrant and refugee populations in the US like the Hmong and Karen develop metabolic diseases like obesity, prompting concern among community members. To read the full story…. Register … Read Full Article
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Finding Jobs for the HardEmploy
T. Rybak told Bradley, since it has long been a hub for refugee resettlement. The area is home to many people who fled Southeast Asia and Africa and elsewhere—Mexicans, Hmong, Indians, Vietnamese, Som… Read Full Article
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Plays highlight issues of immigrant farmers, farmland inheritance
“American Dream; we really live the American Dream,” a Hmong woman who settled near Des Moines was quoted in the play. A Sudanese refugee talked about how working the land in Iowa offered a link to hi… Read Full Article