Immigrant ambassadors [electronic resource] : citizenship and belonging in the Tibetan diaspora / Julia Meredith Hess.
By: Hess, Julia Meredith.
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BookPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009Description: xv, 266 p. : ill.Subject(s): Tibetans -- United States -- Ethnic identity | Tibetans -- India -- Ethnic identity | Refugees, Tibetan -- History | Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States | Politics and cultureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.899541073 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-259) and index.
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.
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