This book explores the American Mongolian diaspora, arguing that this group constitutes a critical case for understanding how migration unfolds under conditions of legal stratification, limited ethnic infrastructure, and accelerated global connectivity. Unlike migrant groups whose trajectories are shaped by colonial legacies, labor recruitment regimes, or long-established ethnic economies, Mongolian migration to the United States emerged primarily after 1990 as a response to post-socialist transformation. As such, it allows for close examination of how migrants navigate global inequality when institutional support is weak and uncertainty is structurally embedded.

Professor Baatar Tsend conducts research in international studies. His works have been published in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and China. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois and Indiana University in the United States. He has researched Mongolians in America and published his work in the Gale Encyclopedia Multicultural America and the Eastern European Anthropological Review.