"If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don't Kill Your Buffalo to Eat": Hmong Farm Cooperatives and Refugee Resettlement in 1980s Minnesota
Author(s):
Tsu, Cecilia M
Format:
Journal article
Citation:
Journal Of American Ethnic History, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2017). pp. 38.
Language:
English
Abstract:
Tsu examines the brief and tumultuous history of two high-profile Minnesota-based farm cooperatives as a window into the evolution of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement policy during the 1980s and its intersection with the rise of modern conservatism in the US. She shows how the Hmong resettlement experience was in fact linked to some of the most pressing debates in American political life during the late 20th century, including the role of government, the functions of the welfare state vs. individual responsibility, and the US' ability and obligation to incorporate involuntary migrants its policies overseas had helped produce.