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Title: Newspaper article about refugee population growing, circa 1980
Contributor: Hyleigh Pan
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1980
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Hyleigh Pan collection of digital photographs of Lao ephemera
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Winfield Daily Courier newspaper article from the 1980s titled, "Refugee Population Growing," describes how the population of refugees in Kansas may double in the next five years, with most being young people who fled Communist takeovers in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. They come from various backgrounds and are facing challenges adjusting to the new culture, with language being the biggest obstacle. 150 settled in Winfield with the first Laotian family sponsored by a church in 1978. They are seeking new homes, jobs, and to make friends with Americans.
Type: image
Form/Genre: digital photographs
Identifier: Laotian_diaspora17.jpg
Subject: Laotian Americans
Laotian Americans--History--Periodicals.
Laotian Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Laotians--United States--Fiction.
Human rights--Laos.
Lao literature.

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