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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Hmong"”.
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Hmong skirt analysis
The Hmong skirt or “daim tiab'' is an object that is a part of the Hmong traditional attire. Although the Hmong skirt was traditionally worn for everyday wear, in today’s global society traditional Hmong clothing is now worn for events such as weddings and the annual Hmong New Year. Western …
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Fourth grade Hmong students’ reading proficiency.
… and practitioners alike have noticed that Hmong students do not achieve as well as their monolingual peers and other bilingual students. Linguistic factors alone do not account for this discrepancy, but rather a number of sociocultural factors are likely at work (Au, 1998). The current …
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Rewriting Hmong womanhood: literacy that mediates borders
In “Rewriting Hmong Womanhood,” I argue that the revision of cultural gender roles for migrant women comes about through relocating literacies: moving family and home literacies across borders to public spaces such as schools, workplaces, and political realms while also using those same literacies …
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Hmong American College Women's Experiences of Parent-Child Relationships
… study examines the parent-child relationships of Hmong American college women. Fourteen women in their junior or senior year from five Midwestern colleges or universities participated in the study. Symbolic interaction theory was used as a guiding framework and a phenomenological method was …
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Negotiating Race, Navigating School: Situating Hmong American University Student Experiences
… operate within the educational experiences of Hmong American students at a Wisconsin state university (WSU). The research project investigates the ways in which neo-racist discourses of cultural difference have racially constructed Hmong people and Hmong culture as deficient, barbaric, and …
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Obesity Education For Hmong Adolescents With Obesity In Pediatric Primary Care
… among marginalized minorities such as the Hmong community. Obesity not only increases morbidity and mortality but also accounts for 20% of U.S. health expenditures. The objective of this quality improvement project was to develop and implement an obesity education and counseling program for …
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Understanding Infant Feeding Choices among Hmong-American Women in Saint Paul, MN
To understand infant-feeding patterns among Hmong women in St. Paul, MN, this qualitative study used a convenience sample of 21 Hmong mothers who had at least 1 child under the age of 2. Drawing on interviews and questionnaires, this researcher explored (a) how participants described their …
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Mental Health Experiences within the Hmong American LGBTQ Community: A Qualitative Research Project
… the life experiences of six second-generation Hmong Americans individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ). The six participants live in diverse regions of the United States (U.S.) and range in age from 18 to 40 years. In-depth semi-structured …
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Relationships between Posttraumatic Stress, Acculturation, and Maternal Sensitivity in Vietnamese and Hmong Mothers
… occurred in a community sample of Vietnamese and Hmong mothers and to describe relationships between PTS, depression, anxiety, acculturation and maternal sensitivity. Transition theory (Bridges, 1980), and a conceptual model of parenting in immigrant populations building on Belsky's (1984) work, …
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A phenomenological study of the coming out experiences of gay and lesbian Hmong.
… of sexual orientation remains a taboo one in the Hmong community, but one that must be addressed, particularly as more Hmong Americans continue to negotiate multiple identities, including sexual orientation. This study explored some of the internal and external processes involved with the coming …
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Twin Cities Temporalities: Queer Blackness and Hmong Refugeeism in The Hip Hop Dance Scene
… The third chapter focuses on the primarily Hmong Breaking crew, The Loonies, with interviews from two members, Kou “Koulaid” Lee and Jurza Lee, centering their struggle for recognition. Chapter four imagines an epic battle between NBC and The Loonies, highlighting the dance scene’s …
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A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong -- their History, Culture and American Journey
… 2010 History A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong – Their History, Culture and American Journey Chairperson: Michael Mayer Following the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian refugees fled their homelands for America, where they started their lives …
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A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong -- their History, Culture and American Journey
… 2010 History A New Life in Montana: The Laotian Hmong – Their History, Culture and American Journey Chairperson: Michael Mayer Following the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian refugees fled their homelands for America, where they started their lives …
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Belonging in the Karst Mountains: Hmong Ways of Life on The Dong Van Karst Plateau,Vietnam
Research on the Hmong people in Southeast Asia offers contrasting views about their relationship to the mountain landscapes where so many Hmong people live. One view portrays the Hmong as finding self-realisation in mountain settings, which are deemed to provide them a secure refuge from lowland …
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Belonging in the Karst Mountains: Hmong Ways of Life on The Dong Van Karst Plateau,Vietnam
Research on the Hmong people in Southeast Asia offers contrasting views about their relationship to the mountain landscapes where so many Hmong people live. One view portrays the Hmong as finding self-realisation in mountain settings, which are deemed to provide them a secure refuge from lowland …
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Acculturation in a community garden: the shifting role of a Hmong garden in eastern Wisconsin
… to a community garden that has been kept by a Hmong immigrant community for more than 30 years. This thesis uses a cultural geographic approach to present an ethnography of Sheboygan’s Hmong community garden. This ethnography addresses convergent knowledge gaps in the literature on immigration …
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Family ministry perceptions and practices in Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches: a multiple case study
… from three stratified, randomly selected Hmong C&MA churches to discover the family ministry perceptions and practices of these Hmong churches. These family ministry perceptions and practices were then compared to the religious education of children within the traditional Hmong religion in …
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Assessment of cleft palate articulation and resonance in familiar and unfamiliar languages: English, Spanish, and Hmong.
… dysfunction (VPD) of English, Spanish, and Hmong samples from naïve listeners, generalist speech-language pathologists (SLPs), and specialist SLPs. The speech samples were obtained from 22 speakers, nine with a history of VPD and 13 controls. The ratings were completed by 24 native English …
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