Transnational Ethnic Relationship of Mnong People in Dak Nong Province (By the Study in Thuan An Commune, Dak Mil District)

Abstract

The Mnong people is one of 12 indigenous ethnicities in the Central Highlands, distributing crowdedly in two provinces of Dak Nong and Dak Lak, having coethnics living for long-standing time in Northeast Cambodia and recently having a number of members migrating to the United States. This is the condition for Mnong people to establish their transnational coethnic relationships. The study in Thuan An commune, Dak Mil district, Dak Nong province shows that the relationships between Mnong people in Vietnam and their coethnics in Cambodia have taken place frequently in fields of economy, ethnosociety, religion, etc. Meanwhile, although Mnong people in the United States rarely return to visit their homevillages in Vietnam, they send continuously money and gifts to their families and relatives and contribute actively money to construction of bases of religious life.