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Article: The way to work.(includes related article on a social worker-turned-mobile home marketer)(Hmong immigrants in North Carolina)
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- Business North Carolina
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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To find jobs - and a new life - the Hmong people have traveled halfway around the world to Hickory.
Yer Lo's parents died during the war. She doesn't know of what exactly. There weren't any hospitals. Even if there were, her family was constantly moving and couldn't wait around for a diagnosis.
Her brothers and uncles fought in a U.S.supported war against the North Vietnamese army and Pathet Lao Communists in Laos. In 1976, after American troops pulled out of neighboring Vietnam, her oldest brother decided it was time for the family to get out. They are Hmong, a minority Laotian ethnic group, and feared reprisals.
Lo, who was 6, spent a year in ...