The podcast discusses the Hmong migration to Minnesota and focuses on Lee Pao Xiong's family's migration out of Laos and into the Twin Cities. The Hmong people faced forced migration in the past and eventually settled in Southeast Asia. The US recruited Hmong soldiers to help prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, and Lee's family lived in Long Tieng, a CIA-operated airbase in Laos. After the war, Lee and his family were evacuated and ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand before moving to Indiana and eventually settling in Minnesota. Chain migration brought many Hmong people to Minnesota, where they found economic and educational opportunities in a welcoming community. Lee took advantage of these opportunities and is now the director of the Center for Hmong studies at a university.

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