Refugees Part 14

Refugee Policy and Cultural Identity: In the Voice of Hmong and Iu Mien Young Adults
Bill Ong Hing
Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal
Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2003 p.111

U.S. refugee admission and resettlement policies have helped to shape the cultural identities of Refugees in America in unanticipated ways. In this article, the author examines the effects of these policies on the young adult members of two small Laotian refugee groups-the Hmong and the Iu Mien. After reviewing the ad hoc admission and resettlement programs of the federal government, the author reviews a collection of interviews of young college students and discovers a range of attitudes on identity, mainstream culture, religion, and the desire to maintain ethnic culture. The cultural identity being developed by Iu Mien and Hmong young adults is based on their experience as the children of refugees, most of whom were on public assistance. They may identify with other Asian Americans with whom they interact, but without that interaction race alone may not be a sufficient marker to bridge a common identity with Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. In the process of cultural identity formation, some are choosing to incorporate aspects of their culture out of respect for and in tribute to their elders and centuries of tradition, but on their own terms. For them, the development of cultural identity is a statement of individualism. Theirs is a statement of dissent and independence from mainstream culture, Asian American culture dominated by Chinese American and Japanese American life, and their own parents’ cultures.

CHILDREN AS REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS
St. Louis University Public Law Review
Volume 22, Number 2, 2003

REFUGEES AND HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES
Heather Jacobson
Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
Volume 17, Number 4, Summer 2003 p.667

Fitzpatrick, Joan (ed.). Human Rights Protection for Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Internally Displaced Persons: A Guide to International Mechanisms and Procedures
Carolyn Patty Blum
American Journal of International Law
Volume 97, Number 3, July 2003 p.728

The Victory of Expediency: Afghan Refugees and Pakistan in the 1990s
Daniel Langenkamp
Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Volume 27, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2003 p.229

An examination of the policies implemented by the government of Pakistan and the international community towards Afghan refugees demonstrate that the international refugee regime is both highly politicized and offers few protections t? asylum seekers in, or from, non-strategic peripheral stares.

UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency: Guidelines on International Protection: Application of the Exclusion Clauses: Article 1F of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
International Journal of Refugee Law
Volume 15, Number 3, July 2003 p.492-501

Background Note on the Application of the Exclusion Clauses: Article 1F of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees : Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section, Department of International Protection, Geneva, 4 September 2003
International Journal of Refugee Law
Volume 15, Number 3, July 2003 p.502-549

Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries: January to July 2003 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Geneva, 5 September 2003
Bela Hovy
International Journal of Refugee Law
Volume 15, Number 3, July 2003 p.550-560

Borderline: Australia’s Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa
Arthur C. Helton
International Journal of Refugee Law
Volume 15, Number 3, July 2003 p.561-563

Author: international

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Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.