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Hmong 40th

2004: More families arrive

MPR News reporter Toni Randolph joined Hmong families at the Twin Cities International Airport in June 2004 as they awaited the arrival of relatives and friends planning to resettle in Minnesota from refugee camps in Thailand.
by Toni Randolph

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1999: This is Home | Hmong in Minnesota

In a four-part documentary in 1999, MPR News reporter Lynette Nyman explored the ways members of St. Paul's Hmong community wrestled with issues of culture and identity, with maintaining ties to the past and seeking to thrive in modern urban America.

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1987: Hmong families meet arriving relatives at airport

MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports from Twin Cities International Airport as Northwest flight 128 arrives from Bangkok. Among its passengers are nearly three dozen Hmong refugees planning to resettle in Minnesota.

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1986: Visiting Ban Vinai refugee camp

1986: Visiting Ban Vinai refugee camp

MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports from Ban Vinai, "a refugee camp in a picturesque valley in northern Thailand," as Hmong craftspeople, American doctors and U.N. officials live and work and navigate the artificial constructs life inside its boundaries.

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1981: The challenges of housing

MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports on the housing challenges — practical, cultural, governmental and social — refugee families face after arriving in Minneapolis.

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1980: Laotian immigrants arrive in Minnesota

In a report broadcast May 2, 1980, MPR News reporter Tom Meersman tells the story of 60 Laotian refugees who arrived on a flight from San Francisco to Minnesota the day before.

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1979: 'Trampled Grass' documentary

In 1979, MPR News reporter Greg Barron accompanied a team of medical doctors and nurses from Minnesota who were working in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thailand/Kampuchea border. This documentary reports on the sights, the sounds, the people and the suffering.

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