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Author Hess, Julia Meredith

Title Immigrant ambassadors : citizenship and belonging in the Tibetan diaspora / Julia Meredith Hess
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustrations
Contents Locating the Tibetan diaspora in a world of nation-states -- Tibet in diaspora : locating the homeland from the margins of exile -- India, New Mexico, and the specter of Tibet : on the trail of the Tibetan diaspora -- "Tibetanness" where there is no Tibet : culture in a world of nation-states -- Refugees to citizens, Tibetans, and the State -- Expanding the diaspora, transforming Tibetanness -- The Tibetan-U.S. Resettlement Project : the lottery, the "lucky 1,000" and immigrant ambassadors -- Tibetans in India : deterritorialized culture, occidental longing, and global imaginaries -- Tibetans in the United States -- A new home in diaspora : the first years of the TUSRP, 1992-1996 -- "Culture is your base camp" : Tibetans in New Mexico, youth, and cultural identity -- Statelessness and the state : the meanings of citizenship -- Conclusion : Tibetans in the new world
Summary Following the Chinese annexation of Tibet some 50 years ago huge numbers of Tibetans became stateless refugees. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress allowed 1,000 Tibetans and their families to immigrate to America. This book examines Tibetan identity at a critical juncture in the diaspora's expansion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index
Notes English
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Subject Tibetans -- United States -- Ethnic identity
Tibetans -- India -- Ethnic identity
Refugees, Tibetan -- History
Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States
Politics and culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Citizenship -- Social aspects
Politics and culture
Refugees, Tibetan
Tibetans -- Ethnic identity
Ethnische Identität
Ausland
India
United States
Indien
USA
Tibeter.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804776318
0804776318