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Reclaiming Diasporic Identity: Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora: Studies of World Migrations

Autor Sangmi Lee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2024
The Hmong diaspora radiates from Southeast Asia to include far-flung nations like the United States, New Zealand, and Argentina. Sangmi Lee draws on the concept of diasporic identity to explore the contemporary experiences of Hmong people living in Vang Vieng, Laos, and Sacramento, California. Hmong form a sense of belonging based on two types of experiences: shared transnational cultural and social relations across borders; and national differences that arise from living in separate countries. As Lee shows, these disparate influences contribute to a dual sense of belonging but also to a transnational mobility and cultural fluidity that defies stereotypes of Hmong as a homogenous people bound to one place. Lee’s on-the-ground fieldwork lends distinctive detail to communities and individuals while her theoretically informed approach clarifies and refines what it means when already hybrid and dynamic identities become diasporic. In-depth and interdisciplinary, Reclaiming Diasporic Identity blends ethnography and history to provide a fresh consideration of Hmong life today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252087868
ISBN-10: 0252087860
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 9 black & white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Studies of World Migrations


Recenzii

“The author uses highly original methods to address the complexities, nuances, and challenges of understanding identities and senses of belonging among the Hmong diaspora. The linking of the Hmong communities in central Laos and Sacramento, California, is a particularly novel approach that pushes forward new understandings of community and belonging that transcends borders.”--Vanessa L. Fong, author of Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World

Notă biografică

Sangmi Lee is an assistant professor of anthropology at Arizona State University.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Making of the Hmong Diaspora: History, Multiple Homelands, and Ambivalent Belonging
  1. Hmong Diasporic History and Multiple Homeland Narratives
  2. Locating the Hmong Diaspora in Ambivalent Local Belongings
 
Part Ⅱ. Transnational Ethnic and Cultural Continuity
  1. An “Imagined” Community of Transnational Kin: Hmong Kinship Continuities in the Diaspora
  2. Compassionate Money: Monetarized Longing and Emotional Remittances in the Transnational Familial Economy
  3. From Local to Transnational: Hmong Shamanism and Spiritual Rituals across Borders
 
Part III. Cultural Difference and Discursive Fragmentation
  1. Cultural Differences in the Diaspora: Hmong Funerals and the Nation-State
  2. Diaspora’s National Affiliations: Relative Belonging to the Nation-State and Discursive Fragmentation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index