HMONG STUDIES NEWSLETTER, WINTER 2024
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION: The Hmong Studies Newsletter has since 2001 provided a very consistent source of up-to-date information about new works in Hmong Studies and Hmong-related research resources. To access back issues of this online publication dating back to 2001 visit: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-newsletter.html
Hmong Studies Newsletter Editor: Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD
ABOUT THE HMONG STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER:
The Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center (www.hmongstudies.org) is the online home of the Hmong Studies Journal academic journal. This unique scholarly site also contains extensive bibliographies in Hmong Studies as well as census data and an online research paper library.
Most of the Hmong Studies articles, books and dissertations listed in this newsletter and on the website may be found at the Hmong Resource Center Library (www.hmonglibrary.org) at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul, the largest depository of Hmong Studies academic journal articles and graduate theses and dissertations in the United States. The library also includes a Hmong Studies Virtual Library which includes links to full-text of hundreds of Hmong-related research studies. Hmong Cultural Center also includes a comprehensive museum that teaches visitors about Hmong culture and history and folk arts. (https://www.hmonghistorycenter.org/)
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION: The Hmong Studies Newsletter has since 2001 provided a very consistent source of up-to-date information about new works in Hmong Studies and Hmong-related research resources. To access back issues of this online publication dating back to 2001 visit: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-newsletter.html
Hmong Studies Newsletter Editor: Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD
ABOUT THE HMONG STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER:
The Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center (www.hmongstudies.org) is the online home of the Hmong Studies Journal academic journal. This unique scholarly site also contains extensive bibliographies in Hmong Studies as well as census data and an online research paper library.
Most of the Hmong Studies articles, books and dissertations listed in this newsletter and on the website may be found at the Hmong Resource Center Library (www.hmonglibrary.org) at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul, the largest depository of Hmong Studies academic journal articles and graduate theses and dissertations in the United States. The library also includes a Hmong Studies Virtual Library which includes links to full-text of hundreds of Hmong-related research studies. Hmong Cultural Center also includes a comprehensive museum that teaches visitors about Hmong culture and history and folk arts. (https://www.hmonghistorycenter.org/)
RECENT WORKS IN HMONG STUDIES:
Books/Theses/Reports
Ni Made Frischa Aswarini. (2023). Political Commitment of Hmong Americans: A Study of a Grassroots Feminist Movement Against Against Abusive International International Marriages 2007-2022. MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This graduate thesis assesses the Hmong American community-led movement against abusive international marriages (AIM) in Wisconsin as an instance of activism or resistance related to marriage-migration phenomena in the 21st century. Through an analysis of oral histories of Hmong American community activists, Hmong American community media, archival materials, born-digital sources, and other contemporary sources, this study incorporates experiences underexplored in U.S. historical scholarship.
Bao Johri. (2023). Uplifting the Leadership Journeys of 1.5 and 2.0 Generation Hmong American Women Leaders in California Public Schools and Colleges: A Descriptive Case Study. PhD Dissertation, California State University, Sacramento. This qualitative research study used a descriptive case study approach to assess the lived experiences of twelve 1.5- or 2.0-generation Hmong American women who hold leadership positions in public schools (K-12) and colleges (community colleges, state colleges, and universities) in California. It delved into their gendered, racial, socioeconomic, cultural, linguistic, and other intersectional identity markers that have been formative in their academic and professional journeys.
Malina Her. (2023). Parenting After Divorce with an Immigrant Community: An Exploration of Hmong Parents’ Parenting Experiences. PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota. This graduate dissertation is comprised of two qualitative studies: a study with Hmong American key community informants to explore their perceptions of barriers to shared parenting and the role of family in the decision-making process; and a second study with divorced Hmong American parents centered on their parenting experiences after divorce.
Samantha Ly Her. (2023). The Magic of Healing: An Exploration of Contemporary Hmong Shamanism.MA Thesis, California State University, Sacramento. Utilizing guided conversations, ethnographic interviews, the researcher’s lived experience, Hmong history, folklore, and songs, and participant observation of both neeb rituals as well as digitally-mediated discussions of kev ua neeb, this graduate research study examines ongoing shifts in contemporary magico-religious healing practices in the Hmong community as they unfold in the Sacramento area.
Edward Lee. (2023). Hmong American K-12 School Administrators' Experiences and Values Related to a Graduate Degree. PhD Dissertation, California State University, Sacramento. In this narrative inquiry graduate study, five Hmong American K-12 school administrators in California shared their experiences. The theoretical framework used in this study was the community culture wealth model, academic resilience theory, as well as transformative leadership theory. Using semi-structured interviews, the researcher explored the participants' experiences in graduate school as well as their values and perceptions related to a graduate degree.
Luke Walker Packer. (2023). Open Liver Open Lung: Elaborate Expressions in White Hmong. MA Thesis, Brigham Young University. This graduate thesis involves a description of four-word elaborate expressions in White Hmong. The goal of this work is to describe the behavior, characteristics, and functions of the expressions using data from the White Hmong-English Dictionary (Heimbach 1980).
Yang Thai Vang. (2023). Returning Home: The Thesis of a Master. MA Thesis, Brigham Young University. This project, a written thesis in conjunction with a film is intended to advance a “Hmong Oral Knowledge” approach to facilitate both understanding and preserving Hmong cosmology. This approach is intended to put Hmong cosmology and philosophy into dialogue with scholarship being produced about Hmong communities across the world which often treat Hmong ideas as mere data-to-be-analyzed. This graduate thesis focuses on the substance of Master Shong Ger Thao’s philosophy (derived from Hmong oral ritual), in order to “look” and not just “see” (MacDougall 2019) human experience from a Hmong theoretical perspective.
Jason Xiong. (2023). Identifying Success Strategies for Hmong American Students in Higher Education. PhD Dissertation, University of the Pacific. The purpose of this graduate study was to identify success strategies of Hmong Americans that completed their undergraduate degrees and beyond to provide information to current and future Hmong Americans as they pursue their degree. These strategies helped the participants as they discover new things while learning to balance school, work, children, and cultural obligations. Through a basic general qualitative study, the researcher identified the following themes: 1) First Generation College Students; 2) Counseling; 3); Connection with Professors 4) Connection with colleagues; 5) Library; 6) Tutoring; 7) Personal growth.
Kevin Xiong. (2023). Hmong Parent Engagement: The Need To Provide Basic Needs in Hmong Charter Schools to Increase Parent Engagement. EdD Dissertation, University of North Dakota. This graduate study assessed two Hmong charter schools in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, as well as 10 parents from one of the two Hmong charter schools. The results from administrator and parent interviews helped the author to identify basic needs services that are crucial to implementing programs and services within Hmong charter schools in order to increase parent engagement.
Kayhlia Yang. (2023). AHMong Students in Academia: Understanding HMong Stop-out Students at Universities in California. MA Thesis, San Francisco State University. his study investigates the factors that influence and continue to influence, first generation Hmong American college students to leave a four-year university in the state of California. As first-generation college students, navigating the pathway to success in academia may be tricky when there is a lack of resources, lack of support, and confusion when at the university. This research aims to understand the different factors that contribute to Hmong students “stopping-out” or leaving a four-year university, which is a prevalent phenomenon in higher education.
Pa Yang. (2023). Acculturation and Well-Being in the Hmong Community: A Sequential Method Approach. MA Thesis, California State University, Chico. The purpose of this graduate study was to explore the relationship between acculturation, family functioning, and well-being. The Hmong community of Butte County, California was a population of particular interest in this study. The author's main research question was: what are the pertinent issues that present challenges for the Hmong community? Additionally, based on past research, this graduate study investigated important issues in the Hmong community related to acculturation and generation gap.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Serena Xiong et al. (2022). “`We will do whatever it takes’: Understanding Socioecological Level Influences on Hmong-American Adolescents and Parents’ Perceptions of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine.” Journal of Cancer Education 37: 1893-1901. Abstract Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination completion rates in Asian-American populations are substantially lower than most White Americans. The researchers' objective was to identify the knowledge, perceptions, and decision-making processes about HPV vaccinations in the Hmong population, an Asian-American group with increased risks of HPV-related cancers. The authors conducted eight focus groups with Hmong adolescents (n=12) and parents (n=13) to learn about barriers, facilitators, and decision-making processes regarding general vaccinations and the HPV vaccine.
Kathryn Brown et al. (2023). “A Digital Diabetes Storytelling Intervention for the Hmong Community: A Pilot Study.” Health Promotion Practice. 20: 1-4. The purpose of this article is to examine the acceptability of a culturally informed diabetes self-management education video tool, using digital storytelling that was created using a community-engaged approach, administered in a single academic clinic that sees a large percentage of Hmong patients.
Wang Haoying. (2023). “A Wandering Nation: Migration History and Cultural Presentation of the Transnational Hmong.” Synesis 15(3): 2636-360 - 376. The author of this paper provides an overview of Hmong migration history and cultural themes over time.
Kong Pheng Pha. (2023). “Colorblindness as Anti-Asian Racism.” American Studies 62(3): 120-142. This article examine and discuss“anti-Asian racism” by expanding its definition to include colorblindness as a form of violence against Asians in the United States. Specifically, this article examines racism against Hmong Americans in Wisconsin as a case study to understand the complex transmutations and everchanging appearance of anti-Asian racism in the United States, with colorblindness both predating and even existing synchronously with the current formations of anti-Asian physical violence.
Kongpheng Pha and Kari Smalkoski. (2023). “De-Exceptionalizing Sunisa Lee: Uneven Gymnastics and a Hmong American State-less Critique.” American Quarterly, 75(3): 609-631. The authors of this article problematize Sunisa Lee's rise to fame as the best known Hmong American athlete in the 2020 Olympics. They consider the following issues. How did dominant media, mostly written by non-Hmong, represent Lee as a Hmong American athlete child of refugees from the US “secret war” in Laos? How did Lee’s Asian American body make political and cultural sense to the public against the backdrop of anti-Asian racism in the US during the COVID-19 global pandemic? And how do Hmong American responses to Lee’s success on the international stage produce a state-less critique that troubles the US nation-state’s claim to Lee’s gold medal?
K. Phengmala, et al. (2023). “Ethnobotany of Hmong ethnic groups in Bolikhamxay Province, Central Laos, PDR.” Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoka. 51(3): 1-20. This article provides results from an ethnobotany investigative study of Hmong ethnic groups in Bolikhamxay Province, Laos PDR between 2021 and 2023. The research identified plant uses for 133 species, 104 genera, and 50 families.
Ha Ngoc Son, et al. (2023). “Social Vulnerability, Climate Change, and Ethnic Minority Communities in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam.” The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. 16(1): 21 – 44. Vietnam is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and impoverished ethnic minority groups in marginalized areas are more adversely affected. This research study focuses on the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of Vietnam, which is the poorest region in the country. It utilizes a participatory case study approach in assessing the vulnerability of the three major ethnic minority groups in the region: (1) the Tay, (2) Dao, and (3) Hmong.
Chia Thao, et al. (2023). “Pesticide Take-Home Pathways, Storage, and Application Methods Among Hmong Farmers in Central Valley, California.” Journal of Agromedicine 28(4): 726-733. Pesticide exposure via take-home pathways is a major health concern among farmers. However, limited research has been conducted about the effects of pesticide take-home pathways on small-scale Hmong farmers in the Central Valley of California. This ethnographic study explored factors that contribute to pesticide exposure via the take-home pathway among small-scale Hmong farmers in the Central Valley
Zer Vue, et al. (2023). “Stories from Hmong in STEMM.” Trends in Genetics 39(8): 587-592. This article provides stories and voices of seven Hmong scientists working in STEM fields. Each scientist shares their perspective and experience as they have pursued an advanced education and a career in the sciences.
Soua Xiong. (2023). “`Determined to Prove Them All Wrong’: The College Aspirations of Hmong Males.” American Journal of Qualitative Research 7(4): 203-219. This qualitative study explores the college aspirations of Hmong males who are pursuing or have completed higher education in the U.S. Using qualitative data from The Hmong College Student Success Project. The author analyzed trajectory analysis statements from 59 Hmong males to understand their aspirations to attend college. The researcher highlights how Hmong males leverage their aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant capital to navigate their ways to college. More precisely, findings from this study reveal the cultural resources emerging from parents, siblings, educators, college and career preparation programs, and themselves that cultivated their college aspirations.
Yang Sao Xiong and Mark E. Pfeifer. (2023). “Complicating `Suburbanization’ and Spatial Assimilation: The Complex Residential Patterns of Southeast Asian Americans in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area from 1990-2010. Urban Science, 7, 110. The authors of this study provide an analysis using data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows that between 1990 and 2010, Southeast Asian former refugees in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Statistical Area experienced substantial suburbanization, which is expected given their improved socioeconomic status. However, Southeast Asians’ suburbanization has not led to residential propinquity with non-Hispanic Whites. Despite a small decline in Southeast Asians’ overall segregation at the metropolitan area level during the previous two decades, their segregation levels, as measured by the dissimilarity index, remained unchanged or increased in the central city and the suburbs. Furthermore, our findings reveal different ethnic concentration and segregation patterns among four Southeast Asian subgroups, with Hmong residents of the Twi Cities being far more residentially concentrated compared to Cambodians Lao and Vietnamese, complicating the meaning of ‘suburbanization’ as simply a process in which people move from the inner city to its less urban outskirts.
Zha Blong Xiong, Malina Her, and Cahya Yunizar. (2023). “Parental Involvement with Children’s Schooling: Exploring the Experiences of Hmong Parents in Charter Schools.” School Community Journal 33(1): 111-139.
The purpose of this research study was to examine how Hmong parents of students in charter schools were involved in their children’s education at home and what barriers they faced. This study included 23 Hmong parents (9 fathers, 15 mothers) of elementary school-aged children enrolled in three Hmong-focused charter schools in Minnesota.
Yunje Zhang. (2023). “Hmong Spirituality, Nature, and Place. Religions. 14, 1127. In this article, the author argues that Hmong religion can provide the basis of a novel version of non‑human‑centered environmentalism. The author outlines some of the core doctrines in the Hmong religion and shows what they imply about the value of nature then situates the view that is implied by these doctrines into the traditional Western environmental ethics literature on the value of nature.
Bi Zhitao, et al. (2023). “Exploring Transboundary Spaces: A Comparison of Traditional Hmong Musical Identities in China and Thailand. “ The International Journal of Diverse Identities. 23(1): 1-18. This qualitative istudy of Hmong music in China and Thailand seeks to examine how 200 years of separation and the influence of disparate national politics, economies, and cultures have affected the development of Hmong musical traditions. The two field locations for this investigation were purposively selected as Leishan County, Guizhou Province, China, and Khao Kho District, Phetchabun Province, Thailand.
Books/Theses/Reports
Ni Made Frischa Aswarini. (2023). Political Commitment of Hmong Americans: A Study of a Grassroots Feminist Movement Against Against Abusive International International Marriages 2007-2022. MA Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This graduate thesis assesses the Hmong American community-led movement against abusive international marriages (AIM) in Wisconsin as an instance of activism or resistance related to marriage-migration phenomena in the 21st century. Through an analysis of oral histories of Hmong American community activists, Hmong American community media, archival materials, born-digital sources, and other contemporary sources, this study incorporates experiences underexplored in U.S. historical scholarship.
Bao Johri. (2023). Uplifting the Leadership Journeys of 1.5 and 2.0 Generation Hmong American Women Leaders in California Public Schools and Colleges: A Descriptive Case Study. PhD Dissertation, California State University, Sacramento. This qualitative research study used a descriptive case study approach to assess the lived experiences of twelve 1.5- or 2.0-generation Hmong American women who hold leadership positions in public schools (K-12) and colleges (community colleges, state colleges, and universities) in California. It delved into their gendered, racial, socioeconomic, cultural, linguistic, and other intersectional identity markers that have been formative in their academic and professional journeys.
Malina Her. (2023). Parenting After Divorce with an Immigrant Community: An Exploration of Hmong Parents’ Parenting Experiences. PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota. This graduate dissertation is comprised of two qualitative studies: a study with Hmong American key community informants to explore their perceptions of barriers to shared parenting and the role of family in the decision-making process; and a second study with divorced Hmong American parents centered on their parenting experiences after divorce.
Samantha Ly Her. (2023). The Magic of Healing: An Exploration of Contemporary Hmong Shamanism.MA Thesis, California State University, Sacramento. Utilizing guided conversations, ethnographic interviews, the researcher’s lived experience, Hmong history, folklore, and songs, and participant observation of both neeb rituals as well as digitally-mediated discussions of kev ua neeb, this graduate research study examines ongoing shifts in contemporary magico-religious healing practices in the Hmong community as they unfold in the Sacramento area.
Edward Lee. (2023). Hmong American K-12 School Administrators' Experiences and Values Related to a Graduate Degree. PhD Dissertation, California State University, Sacramento. In this narrative inquiry graduate study, five Hmong American K-12 school administrators in California shared their experiences. The theoretical framework used in this study was the community culture wealth model, academic resilience theory, as well as transformative leadership theory. Using semi-structured interviews, the researcher explored the participants' experiences in graduate school as well as their values and perceptions related to a graduate degree.
Luke Walker Packer. (2023). Open Liver Open Lung: Elaborate Expressions in White Hmong. MA Thesis, Brigham Young University. This graduate thesis involves a description of four-word elaborate expressions in White Hmong. The goal of this work is to describe the behavior, characteristics, and functions of the expressions using data from the White Hmong-English Dictionary (Heimbach 1980).
Yang Thai Vang. (2023). Returning Home: The Thesis of a Master. MA Thesis, Brigham Young University. This project, a written thesis in conjunction with a film is intended to advance a “Hmong Oral Knowledge” approach to facilitate both understanding and preserving Hmong cosmology. This approach is intended to put Hmong cosmology and philosophy into dialogue with scholarship being produced about Hmong communities across the world which often treat Hmong ideas as mere data-to-be-analyzed. This graduate thesis focuses on the substance of Master Shong Ger Thao’s philosophy (derived from Hmong oral ritual), in order to “look” and not just “see” (MacDougall 2019) human experience from a Hmong theoretical perspective.
Jason Xiong. (2023). Identifying Success Strategies for Hmong American Students in Higher Education. PhD Dissertation, University of the Pacific. The purpose of this graduate study was to identify success strategies of Hmong Americans that completed their undergraduate degrees and beyond to provide information to current and future Hmong Americans as they pursue their degree. These strategies helped the participants as they discover new things while learning to balance school, work, children, and cultural obligations. Through a basic general qualitative study, the researcher identified the following themes: 1) First Generation College Students; 2) Counseling; 3); Connection with Professors 4) Connection with colleagues; 5) Library; 6) Tutoring; 7) Personal growth.
Kevin Xiong. (2023). Hmong Parent Engagement: The Need To Provide Basic Needs in Hmong Charter Schools to Increase Parent Engagement. EdD Dissertation, University of North Dakota. This graduate study assessed two Hmong charter schools in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, as well as 10 parents from one of the two Hmong charter schools. The results from administrator and parent interviews helped the author to identify basic needs services that are crucial to implementing programs and services within Hmong charter schools in order to increase parent engagement.
Kayhlia Yang. (2023). AHMong Students in Academia: Understanding HMong Stop-out Students at Universities in California. MA Thesis, San Francisco State University. his study investigates the factors that influence and continue to influence, first generation Hmong American college students to leave a four-year university in the state of California. As first-generation college students, navigating the pathway to success in academia may be tricky when there is a lack of resources, lack of support, and confusion when at the university. This research aims to understand the different factors that contribute to Hmong students “stopping-out” or leaving a four-year university, which is a prevalent phenomenon in higher education.
Pa Yang. (2023). Acculturation and Well-Being in the Hmong Community: A Sequential Method Approach. MA Thesis, California State University, Chico. The purpose of this graduate study was to explore the relationship between acculturation, family functioning, and well-being. The Hmong community of Butte County, California was a population of particular interest in this study. The author's main research question was: what are the pertinent issues that present challenges for the Hmong community? Additionally, based on past research, this graduate study investigated important issues in the Hmong community related to acculturation and generation gap.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Serena Xiong et al. (2022). “`We will do whatever it takes’: Understanding Socioecological Level Influences on Hmong-American Adolescents and Parents’ Perceptions of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine.” Journal of Cancer Education 37: 1893-1901. Abstract Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination completion rates in Asian-American populations are substantially lower than most White Americans. The researchers' objective was to identify the knowledge, perceptions, and decision-making processes about HPV vaccinations in the Hmong population, an Asian-American group with increased risks of HPV-related cancers. The authors conducted eight focus groups with Hmong adolescents (n=12) and parents (n=13) to learn about barriers, facilitators, and decision-making processes regarding general vaccinations and the HPV vaccine.
Kathryn Brown et al. (2023). “A Digital Diabetes Storytelling Intervention for the Hmong Community: A Pilot Study.” Health Promotion Practice. 20: 1-4. The purpose of this article is to examine the acceptability of a culturally informed diabetes self-management education video tool, using digital storytelling that was created using a community-engaged approach, administered in a single academic clinic that sees a large percentage of Hmong patients.
Wang Haoying. (2023). “A Wandering Nation: Migration History and Cultural Presentation of the Transnational Hmong.” Synesis 15(3): 2636-360 - 376. The author of this paper provides an overview of Hmong migration history and cultural themes over time.
Kong Pheng Pha. (2023). “Colorblindness as Anti-Asian Racism.” American Studies 62(3): 120-142. This article examine and discuss“anti-Asian racism” by expanding its definition to include colorblindness as a form of violence against Asians in the United States. Specifically, this article examines racism against Hmong Americans in Wisconsin as a case study to understand the complex transmutations and everchanging appearance of anti-Asian racism in the United States, with colorblindness both predating and even existing synchronously with the current formations of anti-Asian physical violence.
Kongpheng Pha and Kari Smalkoski. (2023). “De-Exceptionalizing Sunisa Lee: Uneven Gymnastics and a Hmong American State-less Critique.” American Quarterly, 75(3): 609-631. The authors of this article problematize Sunisa Lee's rise to fame as the best known Hmong American athlete in the 2020 Olympics. They consider the following issues. How did dominant media, mostly written by non-Hmong, represent Lee as a Hmong American athlete child of refugees from the US “secret war” in Laos? How did Lee’s Asian American body make political and cultural sense to the public against the backdrop of anti-Asian racism in the US during the COVID-19 global pandemic? And how do Hmong American responses to Lee’s success on the international stage produce a state-less critique that troubles the US nation-state’s claim to Lee’s gold medal?
K. Phengmala, et al. (2023). “Ethnobotany of Hmong ethnic groups in Bolikhamxay Province, Central Laos, PDR.” Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoka. 51(3): 1-20. This article provides results from an ethnobotany investigative study of Hmong ethnic groups in Bolikhamxay Province, Laos PDR between 2021 and 2023. The research identified plant uses for 133 species, 104 genera, and 50 families.
Ha Ngoc Son, et al. (2023). “Social Vulnerability, Climate Change, and Ethnic Minority Communities in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam.” The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. 16(1): 21 – 44. Vietnam is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and impoverished ethnic minority groups in marginalized areas are more adversely affected. This research study focuses on the Northern Mountainous Region (NMR) of Vietnam, which is the poorest region in the country. It utilizes a participatory case study approach in assessing the vulnerability of the three major ethnic minority groups in the region: (1) the Tay, (2) Dao, and (3) Hmong.
Chia Thao, et al. (2023). “Pesticide Take-Home Pathways, Storage, and Application Methods Among Hmong Farmers in Central Valley, California.” Journal of Agromedicine 28(4): 726-733. Pesticide exposure via take-home pathways is a major health concern among farmers. However, limited research has been conducted about the effects of pesticide take-home pathways on small-scale Hmong farmers in the Central Valley of California. This ethnographic study explored factors that contribute to pesticide exposure via the take-home pathway among small-scale Hmong farmers in the Central Valley
Zer Vue, et al. (2023). “Stories from Hmong in STEMM.” Trends in Genetics 39(8): 587-592. This article provides stories and voices of seven Hmong scientists working in STEM fields. Each scientist shares their perspective and experience as they have pursued an advanced education and a career in the sciences.
Soua Xiong. (2023). “`Determined to Prove Them All Wrong’: The College Aspirations of Hmong Males.” American Journal of Qualitative Research 7(4): 203-219. This qualitative study explores the college aspirations of Hmong males who are pursuing or have completed higher education in the U.S. Using qualitative data from The Hmong College Student Success Project. The author analyzed trajectory analysis statements from 59 Hmong males to understand their aspirations to attend college. The researcher highlights how Hmong males leverage their aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant capital to navigate their ways to college. More precisely, findings from this study reveal the cultural resources emerging from parents, siblings, educators, college and career preparation programs, and themselves that cultivated their college aspirations.
Yang Sao Xiong and Mark E. Pfeifer. (2023). “Complicating `Suburbanization’ and Spatial Assimilation: The Complex Residential Patterns of Southeast Asian Americans in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area from 1990-2010. Urban Science, 7, 110. The authors of this study provide an analysis using data from the U.S. Census Bureau that shows that between 1990 and 2010, Southeast Asian former refugees in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Statistical Area experienced substantial suburbanization, which is expected given their improved socioeconomic status. However, Southeast Asians’ suburbanization has not led to residential propinquity with non-Hispanic Whites. Despite a small decline in Southeast Asians’ overall segregation at the metropolitan area level during the previous two decades, their segregation levels, as measured by the dissimilarity index, remained unchanged or increased in the central city and the suburbs. Furthermore, our findings reveal different ethnic concentration and segregation patterns among four Southeast Asian subgroups, with Hmong residents of the Twi Cities being far more residentially concentrated compared to Cambodians Lao and Vietnamese, complicating the meaning of ‘suburbanization’ as simply a process in which people move from the inner city to its less urban outskirts.
Zha Blong Xiong, Malina Her, and Cahya Yunizar. (2023). “Parental Involvement with Children’s Schooling: Exploring the Experiences of Hmong Parents in Charter Schools.” School Community Journal 33(1): 111-139.
The purpose of this research study was to examine how Hmong parents of students in charter schools were involved in their children’s education at home and what barriers they faced. This study included 23 Hmong parents (9 fathers, 15 mothers) of elementary school-aged children enrolled in three Hmong-focused charter schools in Minnesota.
Yunje Zhang. (2023). “Hmong Spirituality, Nature, and Place. Religions. 14, 1127. In this article, the author argues that Hmong religion can provide the basis of a novel version of non‑human‑centered environmentalism. The author outlines some of the core doctrines in the Hmong religion and shows what they imply about the value of nature then situates the view that is implied by these doctrines into the traditional Western environmental ethics literature on the value of nature.
Bi Zhitao, et al. (2023). “Exploring Transboundary Spaces: A Comparison of Traditional Hmong Musical Identities in China and Thailand. “ The International Journal of Diverse Identities. 23(1): 1-18. This qualitative istudy of Hmong music in China and Thailand seeks to examine how 200 years of separation and the influence of disparate national politics, economies, and cultures have affected the development of Hmong musical traditions. The two field locations for this investigation were purposively selected as Leishan County, Guizhou Province, China, and Khao Kho District, Phetchabun Province, Thailand.
HMONG STUDIES JOURNAL PUBLISHES VOLUME 25
In December 2023, the Saint Paul-based Hmong Studies Journal published volume 25. View volume 25 here: https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-252023.html
HMONG STUDIES JOURNAL PUBLISHES SPECIAL ISSUE ON HMONG AMERICANS IN THE 2020 U.S. CENSUS
The Saint Paul-based Hmong Studies Journal is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue on Hmong Americans in the 2020 U.S. Census. An internet-based journal, the Hmong Studies Journal is the only peer-reviewed academic publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong history, Hmong culture, Hmong people, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the U.S., Asia and around the world. The Hmong Studies Journal has now published 29 online issues in 26 volumes with a total of 203 scholarly articles since 1996.
Dr. Mark Pfeifer, co-editor of the Hmong Studies Journal stated. “With this special issue on Hmong American population, demographic, socioeconomic and education trends in the 2020 Census, the Hmong Studies Journal provides to the community the most detailed and comprehensive scholarly analysis of recent trends in Hmong American residence, demographics, employment, income and education that has been published. This special issue builds upon earlier seminal special issues and publications the journal organized with scholars on Hmong Americans in the 2000 and 2010 U.S. censuses and shows the continued importance of the journal’s essential contributions to Hmong Studies and broader scholarship on Hmong Americans. The scholarly research in this special issue will be widely disseminated through the Hmong Studies Journal’s website, the journal’s social media pages and to thousands of academic and public libraries through dissemination agreements with major scholarly database aggregators including EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale/Cengage, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Asia-Studies Full-Text.”
View the Special Issue of the Hmong Studies Journal on Hmong Americans in the 2020 U.S. Census here;
https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-2020-census-special-issue-volume-2612024.html
The Saint Paul-based Hmong Studies Journal is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue on Hmong Americans in the 2020 U.S. Census. An internet-based journal, the Hmong Studies Journal is the only peer-reviewed academic publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong history, Hmong culture, Hmong people, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the U.S., Asia and around the world. The Hmong Studies Journal has now published 29 online issues in 26 volumes with a total of 203 scholarly articles since 1996.
Dr. Mark Pfeifer, co-editor of the Hmong Studies Journal stated. “With this special issue on Hmong American population, demographic, socioeconomic and education trends in the 2020 Census, the Hmong Studies Journal provides to the community the most detailed and comprehensive scholarly analysis of recent trends in Hmong American residence, demographics, employment, income and education that has been published. This special issue builds upon earlier seminal special issues and publications the journal organized with scholars on Hmong Americans in the 2000 and 2010 U.S. censuses and shows the continued importance of the journal’s essential contributions to Hmong Studies and broader scholarship on Hmong Americans. The scholarly research in this special issue will be widely disseminated through the Hmong Studies Journal’s website, the journal’s social media pages and to thousands of academic and public libraries through dissemination agreements with major scholarly database aggregators including EBSCO, ProQuest, Gale/Cengage, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Asia-Studies Full-Text.”
View the Special Issue of the Hmong Studies Journal on Hmong Americans in the 2020 U.S. Census here;
https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-2020-census-special-issue-volume-2612024.html
ANNOTATED HMONG STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY AVAILABLE
Annotated Bibliography of Hmong-Related Works: 2007-2019 is available from HER Publisher. The book includes annotations of more than 600 Hmong Studies research publications along with author and subject indexes. Order this unique research reference book here: https://herpublisher.com/collections/frontpage/products/annotated-bibliography-of-hmong-related-works-2007-2019
COMPREHENSIVE AND EXPANDED HMONG STUDIES RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARE ONLINE:
Doing research on a Hmong Studies research topic? More than 40 comprehensive and frequently updated online subject bibliographies of Hmong Studies works are available at the following link: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-bibliographies.html
A 2007-Present research bibliography is updated every few months with information about the latest research publications in Hmong Studies, online links to full-text are included where applicable:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-publications-from-2007-present.html
Doing research on a Hmong Studies research topic? More than 40 comprehensive and frequently updated online subject bibliographies of Hmong Studies works are available at the following link: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-bibliographies.html
A 2007-Present research bibliography is updated every few months with information about the latest research publications in Hmong Studies, online links to full-text are included where applicable:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-publications-from-2007-present.html
