Tag: refugee
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Refugees Fare Well Long-Term In The U.S., New Study Finds
The Center for American Progress and Fiscal Policy Institute looked at refugees who have lived in the U.S. for 10 years or more, focusing on Somali, Burmese, Hmong and Bosnian refugee communities. Bowling Green and Louisville are among the top-40 cities … Read Full Article
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On racism
I recently read “The Song Poet,” a memoir Minnesotan Kao Kalia Yang wrote about her father, Bee Yang, a Hmong refugee who came to Minnesota in 1987. Yang’s chapter about her little brother Xue tore at me. Yang watched Xue as a young, sweet boy full … Read Full Article
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New Report Finds Refugees Take Big Steps Toward Integration In Their First American Decade
We’ve reported on such findings before, but this comprehensive new study focuses on four major refugee groups: Somali, Burmese, Hmong, and Bosnians, amounting to a total of about 500,000 people. While reasons for fleeing their homelands differ, they have … Read Full Article
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Minnesota memorial honors soldiers of ‘secret war’
Laos was neutral during the Vietnam War, but the CIA recruited Hmong soldiers to carry on a covert campaign. After the U.S. pulled out of Laos and Vietnam, tens of thousands fled and lived in refugee camps in Thailand. Many refugees eventually resettled in … Read Full Article
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Local Integration Key to Refugee Resettlement
For the past five years the study looked at census data and identified four groups consisting primarily of refugees — Somali, Burmese, Hmong, and Bosnians— and found they quickly became self-sufficient. Thirty-one out of 1,000 Bosnian refugees are … Read Full Article
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Utah business, refugee leaders urge community to hire refugees
Top metro areas for select refugee communities Marjorie Cortez (Photo: Mary Archbold) For the report, “Refugee Integration in the United States,” researchers examined the contributions and experiences of Bosnian, Burmese, Hmong, and Somali refugees. Read Full Article
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In My Writing, I Hope My Father Finds A Place To Belong
The Thai men with guns stood their ground around the 400 acres I knew as my home, Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, a place I shared with 40,000 other Hmong people. Even as a child, I knew not to wander far. My playground was the stretch of my mother’s sarong. Read Full Article
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Memorial honors soldiers of ‘secret war’
Laos was neutral during the Vietnam War, but the CIA recruited Hmong soldiers to carry on a covert campaign. After the U.S. pulled out of Laos and Vietnam, tens of thousands fled and lived in refugee camps in Thailand. Many refugees eventually resettled in … Read Full Article
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‘This world runs on the shoulders of men like my father’: Kao Kalia Yang’s ‘The Song Poet’ honors father’s struggle and gifts
In the case of author Kao Kalia Yang, she just had to look at her father, Bee. He’s a Hmong refugee who escaped war-torn Laos with his family after the Vietnam War. They moved to the U.S., like thousands of Hmong, who settled in hubs like Minnesota and … Read Full Article
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Things That Matter: Hmong story cloths — a-not-so-traditional tradition
It has been about 40 years since Hmong people began to relocate from refugee camps in Thailand to La Crosse. In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, thousands of Hmong were forced to flee Laos, and they spent many years in camps, where they re-created their … Read Full Article
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Thai refugee Fue Xiong wins scholarship — and sacrifices school for family
And for Xiong, whose family is Hmong, his moment in the spotlight has transcended a simple contest. “Even though I wrote this essay that is mainly about my family, after rereading it I have realized this story is not my story,” he says. “This story … Read Full Article
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Invasion, Occupation, of the Kingdom of Laos by Vietnam Remembered At Lao Hmong Ceremonies
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Memorial ceremonies and events mourning the 40 th anniversary of the refugee exodus from the Royal Kingdom of Laos, and mass killings of tens of thousands of Lao and Hmong people fleeing across the Mekong River from invading … Read Full Article
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Hmong, Missoula came to grips with each other in 1st refugee resettlement
They called us “Hmongtana,” at least the Washington Post did. That was in July 1980, at the peak of the first major refugee resettlement in western Montana. The International Rescue Committee had opened an office in Missoula the year before, receiving … Read Full Article