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Immigrant Ambassadors

Hess, Julia Meredith:
Immigrant ambassadors : citizenship and belonging in the Tibetan diaspora / Julia Meredith Hess. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009. - xv, 266 S. : Ill. Kt.
ISBN 978-0-8047-6017-1 (cloth)
US$ 55,00
DDC: 305.899541073

Beschreibung
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday.
   In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibetans and their families to immigrate to the United States; a decade later the total U.S. population includes some 10,000 Tibetans. Not only is the social fact of the migration—its historical and political contexts—of interest, but also how migration and resettlement in the U.S. reflect emergent identity formations among members of a stateless society.
   Immigrant Ambassadors examines Tibetan identity at a critical juncture in the diaspora's expansion, and argues that increased migration to the West is both facilitated and marked by changing understandings of what it means to be a twenty-first-century Tibetan—deterritorialized, activist, and cosmopolitan. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Figures and Tables. ix
Acknowledgments. xi
Note on Tibetan Transliteraion. xv
Introduction: "We will always hold Tibet in our hearts". 1
PART 1: LOCATING THE TIBETAN DIASPORA IN A WORLD OF NATION-STATES
   1. Tibet in diaspora: locating the homeland from the margins of exile. 17
   2. India, New Mexico, and the specter of Tibet: on the trail of the Tibetan diaspora. 26
   3. "Tibetanness" where there is no Tibet: culture in a world of nation-states. 49
   4. Refugees to citizens, Tibetans, and the State. 77
PART 2: EXPANDING THE DIASPORA, TRANSFORMING TIBETANNESS
   5. The Tibetan-U.S. Resettlement Project: the lottery, the "lucky 1,000" and immigrant ambassadors. 103
   6. Tibetans in India: deterritorialized culture, occidental longing, and global imaginaries. 132
PART 3: TIBETANS IN THE UNITED STATES
   7. A new home in diaspora: the first years of the TUSRP, 1992-1996. 165
   8. "Culture is your base camp": Tibetans in New Mexico, youth, and cultural identity. 183
   9. Statelessness and the state : the meanings of citizenship. 213
Conclusion: Tibetans in the new world. 225
Notes. 231
References Cited. 243
Index. 261

Autorin
JULIA MEREDITH HESS is an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

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