Immigrant ambassadors citizenship and belonging in the Tibetan diaspora /

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Main Author: Hess, Julia Meredith
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
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Table of 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.