Emerging voices of underrepresented Asian Americans

Author(s):

Ling, H.

Format:

Journal article

Publisher:

2008.

Language:

English

Abstract:

The above personal quotes give examples of the specifi c socioeconomic and political experiences of the underrepresented Asian Americans prior to their immigration to the United States, and of some of the issues and problems they confronted after their arrival in this country.1 While a growing number of popular and scholarly works on Asian Americans refl ect and interpret the experiences of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Asian Indian Americans-the fi rst and larger groups of Asian Americans-many newer and smaller groups such as the Burmese, Hmong, Indonesians, Kashmiri, Laotians, Mong, Roma, Thai, and Tibetans have remained underrepresented and understudied in both popular and academic literature, with the Hmong as the only exception. Even in the case of the Hmong, most work is still in the data-collecting stage.2 Therefore, Americans are not very informed about the critical issues of emigration, ethnic identity, gender, class, work, religion, family, and education as they pertain to underrepresented Asian Americans. © 2008 by The Rutgers University Press. All rights reserved.

ISSN:

9780813543413 (ISBN)

Identifier:

HmongStudies1848