Introduction : emerging voices of underrepresented Asian Americans / Huping Ling -- From Laos to America : the Hmong community in the United States / Franklin Ng -- Cultural transition and adjustment : the experiences of the Mong in the United States / Paoze Thao -- The role of ethnic leaders in the refugee community : a case study of the lowland Lao in the American midwest / Pamela A. De Voe -- "Displaced people" adjusting to new cultural vocabulary : Tibetan immigrants in North America / Yosay Wandi -- Unity and diversity among Indonesian migrants to the United States / Clark E. Cunningham -- Dynamics, intricacy, and multiplicity of Romani identity in the United States / Suzuko Morikawa -- Community identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States / Haley Duschinski -- Thai Americans : performing gender / Jiemin Bao -- The gender of practice : some findings among Thai Buddhist women in Northern California / Todd LeRoy Perreira -- Women of the temple : Burmese immigrants, gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. frame / Tamara C. Ho -- Adaptation of Burmese monastic and domestic religious practices in the San Francisco Bay area / Joseph Cheah -- Parent-child conflict within the Mong families / Chimeng Yang -- Hmong American contemporary experience / Kou Yang.