Immigrant ambassadors : citizenship and belonging in the Tibetan diaspora / Julia Meredith Hess.
Material type: TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009Description: xv, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780804760171 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Tibetans -- United States -- Ethnic identity | Tibetans -- India -- Ethnic identity | Refugees, Tibetan -- History | Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States | Politics and cultureDDC classification: 305.899541073 LOC classification: E184.T53 | H47 2009Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Kalpataru Collection | Kalpataru : Custom Content Digital Library | 305.899541073 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
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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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