Tibetans in Nepal
Subtitle: the dynamics of international assistance among a community in exile
By: Ann Frechette.
Series: Studies in forced migration ;; v. 11
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Tibetans -- Nepal.; Exiles -- Nepal.; Tibetans -- Ethnic identity.
Description: "Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India, and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities.

The author explores the ways in which Tibetan exiles in Nepal negotiate their norms and values as they interact with the many international organizations that assist them, and comes to the conclusion that, as beneficial as aid agency assistance often is, it also complicates the Tibetans' efforts to define themselves as a community."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Swiss assistance and self-sufficiency; title: Containing communism; title: Friends of Tibet; title: Weapons of weak states; title: Middlemen and moral authority; title: Conflict and consciousness.