TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tapp, Nicholas
AU  - Yia Lee, Gary
AB  - The Hmong are among Australia’s newest immigrant populations. They came as refugees from Laos after the communist revolution of 1975 ended their life there as highland shifting cultivators. The Hmong originate from southern China where many still remain, and others live in Vietnam, Thailand and Burma. Hmong refugees are now also settled in the USA, Canada, France, Germany and French Guyana. Already the beauty and richness of traditional Hmong culture, in particular their shamanism and embroidered costume, has attracted the attention of the Australian public, but little is known about these people, their background or the struggles they have faced to adjust to a new life in Australia.This interdisciplinary collection of articles deals with their music and textiles, gender and language, their social adaptation and their global diaspora. The book aims to bring knowledge of the Hmong to a wider public and contribute to the understanding of these people.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_459269
ID  - OAPEN ID: 459269
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 670399804
KW  - australia
KW  - culture
KW  - hmong australians
KW  - customs
KW  - social life
KW  - Laos
KW  - Lusheng
KW  - Menstruation
KW  - Thailand
KW  - United States
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/58e33c57-c86c-4bee-9485-103fdcc6a48a/459269.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33732
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2010
TI  - The Hmong of Australia : Culture and Diaspora
ER  - 
