Format:
1 online resource (285 pages)
ISBN:
9780804776318
Content:
Immigrant Ambassadors explores transformations in Tibetan identity as increasing numbers of Tibetans move from being stateless refugees in India and Nepal to citizens of the United States.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Tibetan Transliteration -- Introduction: "We Will Always Hold Tibet in Our Hearts" -- I. Locating the Tibetan Diaspora in a World of Nation-States -- 1. Tibet in Diaspora: Locating the Homeland from the Margins of Exile -- 2. India, New Mexico, and the Specter of Tibet: On the Trail of the Tibetan Diaspora -- 3. "Tibetanness" Where There Is No Tibet: Culture in a World of Nation-States -- 4. Refugees to Citizens, Tibetans, and the State -- II. Expanding the Diaspora, Transforming Tibetanness -- 5. The Tibetan U.S. Resettlement Project: The Lottery, the "Lucky 1,000," and Immigrant Ambassadors -- 6. Tibetans in India: Deterritorialized Culture, Occidental Longing, and Global Imaginaries -- III. Tibetans in the United States -- 7. A New Home in Diaspora: The First Years of the TUSRP, 1992-1996 -- 8. "Culture Is Your Base Camp": Tibetans in New Mexico, Youth, and Cultural Identity -- 9. Statelessness and the State: The Meanings of Citizenship -- Conclusion: Tibetans in the New World -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804760171
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804760171
Language:
English
URL:
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