Buddha Is Hiding
Subtitle: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (Public Anthropology, 5)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780520229983
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Immigration & emigration; Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Civics & Citizenship; Social Science; Social conditions; Cambodia; USA; Ethnic identity; Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Cambodian Americans; Americas (North Central South West Indies); California; Civil rights; Oakland
First sentence: When I moved from Massachusetts to California in the early 1980s, at a time in which the American public saw Asian Americans as people largely of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean ancestry, I was struck by the range of peoples from the Asia Pacific who lived here.
Description: This work tells the story of Cambodians whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. We see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values.