Keywords

Hmong college student, us born hmong, american dream, sense of belongingness, faculty warnth, pedagogical caring, higher education, denominational college, diversity, cross cultural, culture, model minority myth, phenomenology, interviewl qualitative research, content matrix analysis

Abstract

I conducted this study to examine Hmong American college students' perspectives on sense of belongingness and their idea on the American Dream. The college experience can serve as a precursor to improving the social and economic situation of the Hmong students when aligned with the personal desire to gain upward mobility and motivation to circumvent social and academic inconsistencies. The methodology of the study was designed for one-on-one phenomenological informal interviews with Hmong American college upper-classmen using a two-part interview protocol to elicit demographic and experiential information. Moustakas' approach to the analysis of data provided guidelines to review individual transcripts and to group, remove, cluster, and thematize lived experiences. The findings of this study indicated that Hmong college students: (a) enrolled out of obedience to the parents, especially their fathers, regardless of the educational level of the parents and (b) thrived when authority figures on campus reached out to help their humble situation. . . it not only made them belong to the campus family but it strengthened their self-esteem.

Graduation Date

2015

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Cintron Delgado, Rosa

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

College

College of Education and Human Performance

Degree Program

Education; Higher Education

Format

application/pdf

Identifier

CFE0005596

URL

http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0005596

Language

English

Release Date

5-15-2016

Length of Campus-only Access

1 year

Access Status

Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)

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