Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans 9780813546254

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Emerging Voices of Underrepresented Asian Americans
Part I. Emerging Consciousness: Emigration and Ethnic Identity
2. From Laos to America: The Hmong Community in the United States
3. Cultural Transition and Adjustment: The Experiences of the Mong in the United States
4. The Role of Ethnic Leaders in the Refugee Community: A Case Study of the Lowland Lao in the American Midwest
5. “Displaced People” Adjusting to New Cultural Vocabulary: Tibetan Immigrants in North America
6. Unity and Diversity among Indonesian Migrants to the United States
7. Dynamics, Intricacy, and Multiplicity of Romani Identity in the United States
8. Community Identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States
Part II. Emerging Contributions: Gender, Work, Religion, and Education
9. Thai Americans: Performing Gender
10. The Gender of Practice: Some Findings among Thai Buddhist Women in Northern California
11. Women of the Temple: Burmese Immigrants, Gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. Frame
12. The Function of Ethnicity in the Adaptation of Burmese Religious Practices
13. Parent-Child Conflict within the Mong Family
14. Hmong American Contemporary Experience
Contributors
Index