Neo-Rural Hmong in French Guiana

The Hmong have been living in French Guiana since 1977. They are mainly market gardeners and live in two main villages, which are mostly mono-ethnic. At the end of the 1990s, a new Hmong settlement, Corossony, was founded by Hmong from mainland France, neo-rural and neo-agriculturalists,...

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Main Author:	Marie-Odile Géraud
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hmong Studies Journal 2019-12-01
Series:	Hmong Studies Journal
Subjects:	hmong french guyana france neo-rurality authenticity
Online Access:	https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/geraudhsj20.pdf

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spelling	doaj-5b3b6257d40549aa931f554986fde2ff2020-11-25T02:39:35ZengHmong Studies JournalHmong Studies Journal1091-17741091-17742019-12-01201127Neo-Rural Hmong in French GuianaMarie-Odile Géraud 0University of Montpellier (France)The Hmong have been living in French Guiana since 1977. They are mainly market gardeners and live in two main villages, which are mostly mono-ethnic. At the end of the 1990s, a new Hmong settlement, Corossony, was founded by Hmong from mainland France, neo-rural and neo-agriculturalists, driven by a more individualistic lifestyle and aspiring to work towards ideals of freedom, a return to a more authentically Hmong existence and social success. This study examines the characteristics of these neo-residents who stand apart from other Hmong in French Guiana, living in a way they perceive to be at variance with their previous lives in France. Their situation must be analyzed less as a new relationship to the rural world and to agriculture or a reappropriation of a past way of life than as a counter-model to their integration in mainland France.https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/uploads/4/5/8/7/4587788/geraudhsj20.pdfhmongfrench guyanafranceneo-ruralityauthenticity
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title_short	Neo-Rural Hmong in French Guiana
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description	The Hmong have been living in French Guiana since 1977. They are mainly market gardeners and live in two main villages, which are mostly mono-ethnic. At the end of the 1990s, a new Hmong settlement, Corossony, was founded by Hmong from mainland France, neo-rural and neo-agriculturalists, driven by a more individualistic lifestyle and aspiring to work towards ideals of freedom, a return to a more authentically Hmong existence and social success. This study examines the characteristics of these neo-residents who stand apart from other Hmong in French Guiana, living in a way they perceive to be at variance with their previous lives in France. Their situation must be analyzed less as a new relationship to the rural world and to agriculture or a reappropriation of a past way of life than as a counter-model to their integration in mainland France.
topic	hmong french guyana france neo-rurality authenticity
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Neo-Rural Hmong in French Guiana

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