The article explores Southeast Asian diasporas' complex histories, experiences, and community formations in the U.S. and Southeast Asian diaspora consciousness which refers to emerging awareness of shared identities, heritages, and experiences of displacement due to migration, exile, displacement, wars, violence, political persecution, economic…

In elementary classrooms, teaching immigration often begins and ends at Ellis Island--without discussions of racist migration policies or engagement with current issues. Although contemporary immigration is rarely discussed with elementary students, the number of young people from immigrant and/or refugee backgrounds in the U.S. continues to rise.…

Scholars who study Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities are in consensus that this group's realities diverge from their Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) counterparts. In fact, nearly four decades after large-scale immigration as political refugees from Southeast Asia (SEA), this population composed of Cambodians, Hmong, Laotians,…