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Home is where you make it: Hmong refugees in Georgia
Urban anthropology and studies of cultural systems and world economic development • 26 (1) • Published In 1997 • Pages: 71-92
By: Duchon, D. A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Since Hmong refugees began entering the United States in 1975, most research, coming out of California and the Midwest, has concentrated on the high rates of unemployment and low rates of literacy that the group has experienced. By most accounts, the Hmong have not adapted as well to life in the United States as have other Asian groups. Other researchers have even suggested that the Hmong would become part of the permanent urban underclass. However, those Hmong who originally settled in metropolitan Atlanta and other places in the Southeast, even such seemingly unlikely places as Morganton, North Carolina, have thrived. This paper explores and evaluates the reasons for such differential adaptation, based on research with the Hmong in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Finding include prevailing economic conditions, the strategies taken by local Hmong leadership, and a high rate of conversion to Christianity (p. 71).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Interviewing in research
- Internal migration
- External migration
- History and culture change
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Labor supply and employment
- Ethnic stratification
- Household
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- North American Hmong
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1991-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1975-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- D. A. Duchon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98641869
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hmong Americans