Claiming Place

Chia Youyee Vang is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, where she is founder and director of the Hmong Diaspora Studies Certificate Program. Faith Nibbs is founding director of the Forced Migration Upward Mobility Project. She is author of Belonging: The Social Dynamics of Fitting In as Experienced by Hmong Refugees in Germany and Texas and co-editor of Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space. Ma Vang is assistant professor of critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California—Merced.