From Schein's reading he talks about the Hmong and their experiences in the diasporas. In the reading it mentions the 1996 Hmong New Year Festival in Fresno, Ca and how this event invited 2 exiled Laos royals. This can be seen as Hmong people legitimizing their existing in with this act of political play. As Hmong have no "homeland" it has perceived places they lived as homeland and thus Laos has become the "homeland" in the memories of the older generations today. This act makes them feel that their voices and faces is being heard and seen by the bigger world because Hmong people have been forgotten by the U.S after the Secret War in Laos.
If Laos was the older generation perceived "homeland" and now the US have become the younger generation' perceived "homeland," how does the differences between change the ideas and politics in the Hmong people living in the US?
Schein, L. "Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics, and the Materializing of Memory." Positions: East Asian Cultures Critique, vol 7, no.3, 1999, pp. 697-731.
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