The Hmong Refugee Experience in the United States: Crossing the River

A geographer's account of Hmong resettlement, tracing cultural adaptation and the dynamics of refugee community formation in the United States. What Miyares brings that the sociological literature often does not is place: where Hmong families were originally scattered by resettlement policy, why so many then moved again — the secondary migration to the Central Valley and to the Twin Cities that reassembled clan networks the policy had deliberately dispersed — and what that movement did to the communities at both ends. A hundred and thirty-four pages. Note that the 1998 Garland edition and the 2016 Routledge reissue are the same book; this is the single record for it. For students of migration and anyone asking why Hmong Americans live where they live.