Growing up Hmong in Laos and America: Two Generations of Women through My Eyes

Abstract

We, the Hmong, are a fairly new group of people in the United States. Although there are several million Hmong that live in China and other neighboring countries, nearly 200,000 Hmong refugees have resettled in this country since 1975, 40% of them residing in California. With about three decades of history in this country, there are still many issues that need to be explored. In the early 1980s, there was virtually no written literature about the Hmong and especially of our American experiences.