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I am an MLIS student at UNC-Greensboro in North Carolina working on a
paper/project for a class on information services for diverse clients.
The Hmong are the group that my team have chosen to study. My professor
asked me if the Hmong are considered refugees or immigrants today. I
believe that they would still be classified refugees according to the
United Nations definition, but cannot find any information confirming
this. Also, would the second generation Hmong that were born in the
United States be considered refugees on immigrants? Thank you for any
insight that any of you can provide for me. I am working with a team of
two other students and we want our project to be accurate.

Lynne Bolick Reed
UNC-G MLIS student
LIS 662: Information Services for Diverse Clients




Sun Nov 2, 2008 6:01 pm

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I am an MLIS student at UNC-Greensboro in North Carolina working on a paper/project for a class on information services for diverse clients. The Hmong are the...
lynnebreed
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Nov 5, 2008
7:47 pm

Lynne: Most of the Hmong adults over a certain age would be considered refugees. When you come to the U.S. as a refugee, at least as an adult or older teen, I...
hmongcultural
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Nov 5, 2008
7:58 pm

Mark - thank you for your reply. Another question for the group: can you think of any way that I could survey some Hmong citizens to find out if they use a...
lynnebreed
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Nov 6, 2008
5:54 pm

I would recommend contacting a local Hmong non-profit organization and seeing if they have an ESL (or some other type) of class you could give a short survey...
hmongcultural
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Nov 6, 2008
6:41 pm

Not all Hmong who are here in the US are refugees. We have some who came here under the political asylum (I know of two or three cases) category, some came as...
Sisnab
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Nov 6, 2008
8:11 pm

Hi Lynne,                 I havent read the other comments yet but as far as I am aware the first generation who were forced to leave Laos would...
Gemma Wieberg
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Dec 29, 2008
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