The Hmong of Australia

A corrective to how American this catalog otherwise reads. Australia took a small Hmong refugee population after 1975, and this collection follows what became of it, through farming in Queensland, clan politics, and the question of how a diaspora that small sustains itself. Tapp and Lee assemble contributors who treat Australia as its own case rather than a footnote to the American story. For a reader who has only encountered Hmong life through Minnesota and California, the comparison is clarifying: the same rupture, a different state, a different outcome. It is the only book on this shelf about the Hmong outside the United States. For scholars of migration, and for readers curious how much of what they know is specifically American.