“The New Way”: How American Refugee Policies Changed Hmong Religious Life

This post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue of The American Historian. Paja Thao’s arrival in the United States in 1984 marked the end of a long and painful journey. In 1975 the war in Laos forced him to flee his village, and for fifteen days he journeyed through the jungle to Thailand. There, […]

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This post originally appeared in the November 2018 issue of The American Historian. Paja Thao’s arrival in the United States in 1984 marked the end of a long and painful journey. In 1975 the war in Laos forced him to flee his village, and for fifteen days he journeyed through the jungle to Thailand. There, […]

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