Tag: refugee
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Hmong Education Project: Community Days
Free to all!! Join us for Community Days: The Hmong Education Project, an engaging program that aims to enhance your understanding of Hmong history, culture, life in Thailand refugee camps, and the Hmong journey to America. Participants will get an … Read Full Article
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Hmong Thamkrabok
Do you know that there are still some former Hmong refugee families living at Tam Krabok, Saraburi, Thailand? But their lives are in limbo as they face many difficulties. Sao Yang has shared his insights into this matter. SBS Radio Hmong Program has … Read Full Article
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California Has Lessons for Integrating Immigrants, but Will the Feds Undercut Them?
Ly, the Elk Grove mayor, was asked about his personal story, as an immigrant whose parents are Hmong refugees from Laos. Ly said that when he first ran for public office he received hate messages saying things like, “Refugee go back home.” Some people … Read Full Article
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A Refugee Woman on Antidepressants
Kho Kho Siab is loneliness in the Hmong language. Kho is to fix. Siab is to heart. Fix the heart. Please. The woman laid on the sofa, her head on its leathery arm, her cell phone in her hand. She’d put on weight. With each breath she took, her stomach … Read Full Article
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Kidnapping a bride, US gun control Aust US trade deal Aust US refugee, Middle East and Asia politics
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‘Secret War’ refugee shares his story as Hutchinson residents read book about Hmong experience
With immigration an ever-present item in the news, it’s not surprising there was a high turnout Saturday for the One Book, One Community program, “Hmong 101.” Txongpao Lee, executive director of the Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul, and Dr. Mark … Read Full Article
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Refugee shared history, culture in ‘Hmong 101’
It took nine years for Txongpao Lee, executive director of the Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul, to make his way from Laos to Minnesota. He and Dr. Mark Pfeifer, director of programs, development and librarian at the center, presented the story of the … Read Full Article
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Refugee shared background of Hmong experience
With immigration an ever-present item in the news, it’s not surprising there was a high turnout Saturday for the One Book, One Community program, “Hmong 101.” Txongpao Lee, executive director of the Hmong Cultural Center in St. Paul, and Dr. Mark … Read Full Article
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Yang set for keynote presentation during Door County Reads’ second week
Yang wrote this year’s Door County Reads selection The Latehomecomer, which provides an account of her life as a Hmong refugee from her native Laos and adapting to life in the United States. Door County Library Director Tina Kakuske says it was Yang’s … Read Full Article
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Door County Reads Author on Writing, Refugee Experience
This year’s Door County Reads book selection is The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, by Kao Kalia Yang. The book is the memoir of a Hmong family displaced by war, a childhood in the Ban Vinai refugee camp, and her family’s experiences making a … Read Full Article
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How Houston Chefs Collaborate With Refugee Farmers to Produce Some of the City’s Best Dishes
Like Plant It Forward, organizations dedicated dedicated to supporting refugee farmers began as early as the 1980s, when national and state government agencies in Minnesota partnered with a handful of non-profits to help Hmong refugees set up farming … Read Full Article
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Vietnam War refugee who settled in Eau Claire at age 6 now is a judge
Vuelo was just 6 years old when she arrived here. Despite that adversity, Vuelo went on to become the first judge of Hmong-American descent in the state of Minnesota. She officially began her duties Dec. 18 at Ramsey County District Court in St. Paul. Read Full Article
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Eat.Move.Connect. Tip: Connect with others through One Book, One Community
This year’s selection, “The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father” by Kao Kalia Yang Yang, recounts the story of her father, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota driven from the mountains of Laos by America’s Secret War, an unknown part of the Vietnam War. Read Full Article
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Once the shame of the suburbs, Maplewood quiets its critics
About a third of its residents are now non-white, including sizable Somali and Hmong populations. Tou Xiong’s parents spent 15 years in a Thai refugee camp before making it to St. Paul. They saved to buy a home in Maplewood, telling young Tou they wanted … Read Full Article
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Reclaiming member John Slade seeks party nomination to run for state office
About 2 percent identified as multi-racial, Native American, or some other racial or ethnic group. He also noted that the Hmong, a Laotian refugee group, has formed in St. Paul and is the city’s largest Asian group. In the US, only Fresno, California has … Read Full Article
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State’s 1st Hmong-American Judge on Journey from Laos to Minnesota’s Judicial System
“I am just a former refugee kid who wanted to make a little difference in our world.” – Ramsey County District Court Judge Sophia Vuelo. The reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous words, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” are … Read Full Article
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Dear Match Book: We Want to Change the World
Cultural clashes between the doctors and parents of Lia Lee, an epileptic girl living with her Laotian Hmong refugee family in central California, are at the heart of Anne Fadiman’s enduring book, “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.” Read Full Article