Migration of Hmong to the Midwestern United States

A close study of one city. Cathleen Jo Faruque examined how multi-generational Hmong refugee families — from Laos, China, Vietnam, and Thailand — adapted to Rochester, Minnesota, and wrote it for social-work practice rather than for a seminar. The single-site focus is the strength: general accounts of Hmong resettlement flatten differences between places, and this one stays long enough in a mid-sized Midwestern city to show how a specific labor market, school district, and set of agencies shaped particular families. Read it with Hmong in Minnesota, which covers the state at a wider angle. For social workers, sociologists, and readers interested in secondary migration.