Immigrant ambassadors
Subtitle: citizenship and belonging in the Tibetan diaspora
By: Julia Meredith Hess.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780804760171
Subjects: Tibetans -- United States -- Ethnic identity; Tibetans -- India -- Ethnic identity; Refugees, Tibetan -- History; Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States; Politics and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Locating the Tibetan diaspora in a world of nation-states; title: Tibet in diaspora : locating the homeland from the margins of exile; title: India, New Mexico, and the specter of Tibet : on the trail of the Tibetan diaspora; title: "Tibetanness" where there is no Tibet : culture in a world of nation-states; title: Refugees to citizens, Tibetans, and the State; title: Expanding the diaspora, transforming Tibetanness; title: The Tibetan-U.S. Resettlement Project : the lottery, the "lucky 1,000" and immigrant ambassadors; title: Tibetans in India : deterritorialized culture, occidental longing, and global imaginaries; title: Tibetans in the United States; title: A new home in diaspora : the first years of the TUSRP, 1992-1996; title: "Culture is your base camp" : Tibetans in New Mexico, youth, and cultural identity; title: Statelessness and the state : the meanings of citizenship; title: Conclusion : Tibetans in the new world.