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Immigrant ambassadors : citizenship and belonging in the Tibetan diaspora
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- Creator
- Julia Meredith Hess
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xv, 266 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780804760171, 0804776318, 9780804776318, 0804760179
- OCLC
- ocn714569455, on1198931660, ocn289067789
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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