Searching for the Hmong People’s Ethnic Homeland and Multiple Dimensions of Transnational Longing: From the Viewpoint of the Hmong in Laos

This paper examines how Hmong people in the diaspora imagine each other and develop diverse and multidimensional types of longing in the absence of a “true” ethnic homeland. Even before the Hmong dispersed around the world after the Vietnam War, they never identified or agreed upon a “true” ethnic h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sangmi Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hmong Studies Journal 2010-01-01
Series:Hmong Studies Journal
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Online Access:http://hmongstudies.org/LeeHSJ10.pdf