Ma Vang
Biographic Data
| ID | 1259384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ma Vang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ma |
| FAMILY NAME | Vang |
| SIGNATURE | VANG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2019-0441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(Re)living the Cold War
In this essay, we examine the tenacious presence of the Cold War that captures the ongoing processes of what remains. Informed by refugee stories, military waste, and race, the essay rethinks and expands how we understand the Cold War, casting light on the duration beyond its conventional periodization and geopolitics. We make two related arguments. First, the Cold War's long durée extends beyond the year 1989 to the global war on terror waged in…
War’s Returns
This essay draws on the framework of countercommemoration to reflect on the fiftieth anniversary of Hmong presence in the US as a legacy of unresolved contradictions that highlights Hmong acts of archiving, living, and refusing. It approaches the analysis through an examination of community archiving at an organization called Hmong Museum, refugee testimonies, queer mentorship, and performance, and grassroots organizing to center how these …
Examining the causal role of physicians' communication goals in patient outcomes
Past research finds that physicians' communication goals are correlated with patient outcomes. The present work experimentally investigates the effect of five physician communication goals-providing information, encouraging hope, promoting adherence, reducing distress, and increasing satisfaction-on patient outcomes following a hypothetical visit. In an online study, 991 adults watched a video of a physician and imagined they were in an office vi…
Cultural normative beliefs in the U.S. as a determinant of negative dental experiences and dental anxiety
Dental anxiety, a predictor of both dental treatment avoidance and health outcomes, has been linked with early negative dental experiences. The causes of this relationship remain largely unexplored. This study provides a preliminary exploration of within-cultural variations of dental normative beliefs on the perception of negative dental experiences and the subsequent experience of dental anxiety in the U.S. A sample of 190 U.S. adults recruited …
Livability” and “Ungratefulness”
Critical refugee studies (CRS) conceptualizes refugees’ lived experience as a site of theory‐making and knowledge production with and for refugees. As co‐founders of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (CRSC), and as scholars with refugee backgrounds, we theorize alongside our refugee partners to offer a refugee critique of refugee law and humanitarianism. Departing from the 1951 Refugee Convention definition of “refugee,” whose restrictive l…
Rechronicling Histories
This chapter intervenes in the broader gendered construction of knowledge that has informed Hmong subjectivity within restrictive historical genealogies. It examines the strategies of storytelling that reveal how warfare permeated Hmong women’s everyday lives and how these stories reflect their subject formation. The chapter expands the scholarship on Hmong women’s refugee experiences by highlighting their narrative strategies of recalling past e…
Children's media use and food approach behavior
Mindful feeding
Departures
Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples o…
In the Wake of George Floyd
This article analyzes the tenuous relationship between refugees and African Americans, specifically Hmong Americans in relation to Black Lives Matter following the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, one of whom is Hmong. We argue that Hmong expose the messiness of race relations in the U.S. due to their implication as a U.S. ally in Southeast Asia. While Hmong refugees/Americans can be called to enact violence on behalf o…
Critical Refugee Studies
History on the Run
Race, Politics, and Community in the Global Pandemic
Vang focuses on race, politics, and community in the global pandemic. The year 2020 opens up an examination of the unforgiving simultaneity of not only the biopolitics of disease but also reinvigorated settler state violence, the murder of Black Americans, the sharpening of political divisions, and how Asian Americans are situated in all of this. The pandemic has solidified for many of us the violence of the U.S. settler state government and its …
Hmong American and Diaspora Studies
Writing on the Run
This essay examines two Hmong American literary anthologies, Bamboo Among the Oaks (2002) and How Do I Begin? (2011), as sites of critical inquiry into questions about writing, refugee literature, home, and diasporic and deterritorialized subject formation. Rather than simply adding to multi-ethnic literature, the anthologies illuminate the process of literary formations for refugees. Because refugees are not national subjects and their literary …
The Refugee Soldier
This essay examines the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997 to critically engage with the context of the “secret war” in Laos (1961–75) and the “refugee question.” In doing so, it explores the ways in which the state deploys the concept of citizenship: first, as a validation of the Hmong soldiers' sacrifice and, second, as a reward for the Hmong refugee who inhabits a condition of statelessness. This essay foregrounds the link between the …
Critical Refugee Studies
The Refugee Soldier
This essay examines the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997 to critically engage with the context of the “secret war” in Laos (1961–75) and the “refugee question.” In doing so, it explores the ways in which the state deploys the concept of citizenship: first, as a validation of the Hmong soldiers' sacrifice and, second, as a reward for the Hmong refugee who inhabits a condition of statelessness. This essay foregrounds the link between the …
In the Wake of George Floyd
This article analyzes the tenuous relationship between refugees and African Americans, specifically Hmong Americans in relation to Black Lives Matter following the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, one of whom is Hmong. We argue that Hmong expose the messiness of race relations in the U.S. due to their implication as a U.S. ally in Southeast Asia. While Hmong refugees/Americans can be called to enact violence on behalf o…
Children's media use and food approach behavior
Writing on the Run
This essay examines two Hmong American literary anthologies, Bamboo Among the Oaks (2002) and How Do I Begin? (2011), as sites of critical inquiry into questions about writing, refugee literature, home, and diasporic and deterritorialized subject formation. Rather than simply adding to multi-ethnic literature, the anthologies illuminate the process of literary formations for refugees. Because refugees are not national subjects and their literary …
The Refugee Soldier
This essay examines the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 1997 to critically engage with the context of the “secret war” in Laos (1961–75) and the “refugee question.” In doing so, it explores the ways in which the state deploys the concept of citizenship: first, as a validation of the Hmong soldiers' sacrifice and, second, as a reward for the Hmong refugee who inhabits a condition of statelessness. This essay foregrounds the link between the …
Writing on the Run
This essay examines two Hmong American literary anthologies, Bamboo Among the Oaks (2002) and How Do I Begin? (2011), as sites of critical inquiry into questions about writing, refugee literature, home, and diasporic and deterritorialized subject formation. Rather than simply adding to multi-ethnic literature, the anthologies illuminate the process of literary formations for refugees. Because refugees are not national subjects and their literary …
Hmong American and Diaspora Studies
History on the Run
Race, Politics, and Community in the Global Pandemic
Vang focuses on race, politics, and community in the global pandemic. The year 2020 opens up an examination of the unforgiving simultaneity of not only the biopolitics of disease but also reinvigorated settler state violence, the murder of Black Americans, the sharpening of political divisions, and how Asian Americans are situated in all of this. The pandemic has solidified for many of us the violence of the U.S. settler state government and its …
In the Wake of George Floyd
This article analyzes the tenuous relationship between refugees and African Americans, specifically Hmong Americans in relation to Black Lives Matter following the murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, one of whom is Hmong. We argue that Hmong expose the messiness of race relations in the U.S. due to their implication as a U.S. ally in Southeast Asia. While Hmong refugees/Americans can be called to enact violence on behalf o…
Critical Refugee Studies
Departures
Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples o…
Rechronicling Histories
This chapter intervenes in the broader gendered construction of knowledge that has informed Hmong subjectivity within restrictive historical genealogies. It examines the strategies of storytelling that reveal how warfare permeated Hmong women’s everyday lives and how these stories reflect their subject formation. The chapter expands the scholarship on Hmong women’s refugee experiences by highlighting their narrative strategies of recalling past e…
Children's media use and food approach behavior
Mindful feeding
Cultural normative beliefs in the U.S. as a determinant of negative dental experiences and dental anxiety
Dental anxiety, a predictor of both dental treatment avoidance and health outcomes, has been linked with early negative dental experiences. The causes of this relationship remain largely unexplored. This study provides a preliminary exploration of within-cultural variations of dental normative beliefs on the perception of negative dental experiences and the subsequent experience of dental anxiety in the U.S. A sample of 190 U.S. adults recruited …
Livability” and “Ungratefulness”
Critical refugee studies (CRS) conceptualizes refugees’ lived experience as a site of theory‐making and knowledge production with and for refugees. As co‐founders of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (CRSC), and as scholars with refugee backgrounds, we theorize alongside our refugee partners to offer a refugee critique of refugee law and humanitarianism. Departing from the 1951 Refugee Convention definition of “refugee,” whose restrictive l…
War’s Returns
This essay draws on the framework of countercommemoration to reflect on the fiftieth anniversary of Hmong presence in the US as a legacy of unresolved contradictions that highlights Hmong acts of archiving, living, and refusing. It approaches the analysis through an examination of community archiving at an organization called Hmong Museum, refugee testimonies, queer mentorship, and performance, and grassroots organizing to center how these …
Examining the causal role of physicians' communication goals in patient outcomes
Past research finds that physicians' communication goals are correlated with patient outcomes. The present work experimentally investigates the effect of five physician communication goals-providing information, encouraging hope, promoting adherence, reducing distress, and increasing satisfaction-on patient outcomes following a hypothetical visit. In an online study, 991 adults watched a video of a physician and imagined they were in an office vi…
(Re)living the Cold War
In this essay, we examine the tenacious presence of the Cold War that captures the ongoing processes of what remains. Informed by refugee stories, military waste, and race, the essay rethinks and expands how we understand the Cold War, casting light on the duration beyond its conventional periodization and geopolitics. We make two related arguments. First, the Cold War's long durée extends beyond the year 1989 to the global war on terror waged in…
Refugee (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)