Reclaiming Diasporic Identity

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Making of the Hmong Diaspora: History, Multiple Homelands, and Ambivalent Belonging

Hmong Diasporic History and Multiple Homeland Narratives
Locating the Hmong Diaspora in Ambivalent Local Belongings


Part ?. Transnational Ethnic and Cultural Continuity

An "Imagined" Community of Transnational Kin: Hmong Kinship Continuities in the Diaspora
Compassionate Money: Monetarized Longing and Emotional Remittances in the Transnational Familial Economy
From Local to Transnational: Hmong Shamanism and Spiritual Rituals across Borders


Part III. Cultural Difference and Discursive Fragmentation

Cultural Differences in the Diaspora: Hmong Funerals and the Nation-State
Diaspora's National Affiliations: Relative Belonging to the Nation-State and Discursive Fragmentation

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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• Estudos Black & Asian
• Migração de imigração, emigração e
• As minorias étnicas e Estudos Multiculturais
• Antropologia social e cultural
• História social e cultural

Anthropology; sociology; migration studies; refugee studies; ethnic studies; Asian studies; Asian American studies; Southeast Asian studies; diaspora; transnationalism; diasporic identity; belonging; global migration; immigrants; nation-state; national difference; ethnic homeland; homeland; Hmong; Laos; Hmong Americans; Asian Americans; transnational culture; shamanism; funerals; multiculturalism; kinship; hegemony; diasporic history; ethnic minority; ethnic identity; ethnicity; multi-sited ethnography; transnational ethnography; immigrant generations; remittances; rituals; freedom; global national hierarchies