By and For HMong Students: Exploring a Youth Conference as Collective Resistance and Educational Transformation

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Abstract

This case study explores how sib hlub sib pab as capital (to love each other, to help each other; Yang, 2023)—the HMong cultural value of mutual love and support—manifests in the values, practices, and collective efforts of the HMong Student Union at the University of California, Davis. Through participant observations and semi-structured interviews, the findings reveal how HMong students organized a culturally grounded youth conference that mobilized family and community support, reimagined educational pathways, and fostered intergenerational knowledge sharing to empower future generations of HMong students. This study contributes to education research as futuring, highlighting how HMong cultural practices offer relational perspectives for engaging in collective resistance and educational transformation.

Author

• Chamee Moua, University of California - Davis