Chia Youyee Vang

Chia Youyee Van
Born (1971-06-05) June 5, 1971 (age 53)
Xiengkhouang, Laos
OccupationProfessor
Years active2006-Present
EmployerUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Notable workHmong America : reconstructing community in diaspora
SpouseTong Yang

Chia Youyee Vang is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research and writing deals with the Hmong diaspora, other Southeast Asian diasporas and refugees and on community-building efforts among Hmong people in the United States.[1][2]

Vang is the author of the books Hmong in Minnesota[3] and Hmong America : reconstructing community in diaspora.[4] She is also the co-editor of Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women.[5] Hmong in America has been described as "the first scholarly examination of the Hmong experience in the U.S."[6]: 214 

  1. ^ "Chia Youyee Vang Studies The Hmong Diaspora - Hmong Times". Hmong Times. 2018-04-19. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lum 2008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Vang, Chia Youyee (2008). Hmong in Minnesota. Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 9780873515986. OCLC 164570608.
  4. ^ Vang, Chia Youyee (2010). Hmong America : reconstructing community in diaspora. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252035685. OCLC 601331518.
  5. ^ Claiming place : on the agency of Hmong women. Vang, Chia Youyee; Nibbs, Faith G.; and Vang, Ma. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2016. ISBN 9781452950068. OCLC 944346999.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ Riffel, Brent E. (2011). "Review of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 70 (2): 212–214. JSTOR 23046169.