Emerging voices : experiences of underrepresented Asian Americans / edited by Huping Ling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ling, Huping, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian Americans--Social conditions.

South Asian Americans.

South Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

South Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Southeast Asian Americans--Social conditions.

Southeast Asian Americans.

Southeast Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Southeast Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Group identity--United States.

Group identity.

Sex role--United States.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. As the field grows, there is a pressing need to understand the smaller and more recent immigrant communities. Emerging Voices fills this gap with its unique and compelling discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans. Unlike the earlier and larger groups of Asian immigrants to America, many of whom made the choice to emigrate to seek better economic opportunities, many of the groups discussed in this volume fled war or political persecution in their homeland. Forced to make drastic transitions in America with little physical or psychological preparation, questions of “why am I here,” “who am I,” and “why am I discriminated against,” remain at the heart of their post-emigration experiences. Bringing together eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, this collection considers a wide range of themes, including assimilation and adaptation, immigration patterns, community, education, ethnicity, economics, family, gender, marriage, religion, sexuality, and work.

Contents:

Introduction : emerging voices of underrepresented Asian Americans / Huping Ling

From Laos to America : the Hmong community in the United States / Franklin Ng

Cultural transition and adjustment : the experiences of the Mong in the United States / Paoze Thao

The role of ethnic leaders in the refugee community : a case study of the lowland Lao in the American midwest / Pamela A. De Voe

"Displaced people" adjusting to new cultural vocabulary : Tibetan immigrants in North America / Yosay Wandi

Unity and diversity among Indonesian migrants to the United States / Clark E. Cunningham

Dynamics, intricacy, and multiplicity of Romani identity in the United States / Suzuko Morikawa

Community identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States / Haley Duschinski

Thai Americans : performing gender / Jiemin Bao

The gender of practice : some findings among Thai Buddhist women in Northern California / Todd LeRoy Perreira

Women of the temple : Burmese immigrants, gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. frame / Tamara C. Ho

Adaptation of Burmese monastic and domestic religious practices in the San Francisco Bay area / Joseph Cheah

Parent-child conflict within the Mong families / Chimeng Yang

Hmong American contemporary experience / Kou Yang.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612033469

1-282-03346-8

0-8135-4625-7

OCLC:

476239146