[Review of] Patricia V. Symonds. Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village

Authors

Jeremy Hein

Orginal Publication Date

2004

Journal Title

Ethnic Studies Review

Volume

27

Issue

esr/vol27/iss1

First Page

106

Last Page

107

Comments

Inclusion/Exclusion

Abstract

Hmong Americans are a diaspora group that came from Laos after leaving southern China in the early 1800s. The U.S. C.I.A. recruited a Hmong army during the 1960s to assist with the American military campaign against communism in Southeast Asia. Hmong refugees began arriving in the United States in 1975 following the collapse of the pro-American Laotian government. There are now about 200,000 Hmong Americans.

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