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Julia Meredith Hess - Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora - 9780804760171 - V9780804760171
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Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora

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Description for Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora Hardback. Immigrant Ambassadors explores transformations in Tibetan identity as increasing numbers of Tibetans move from being stateless refugees in India and Nepal to citizens of the United States. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 tables, 2 figures, 7 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 1KBB; JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804760171
SKU
V9780804760171
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Julia Meredith Hess
Julia Meredith Hess is an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

Reviews for Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora
"In sum, Immigrant Ambassadors provides a valuable look at Tibetan cultural flexibility and political action in the context of official immigration to the United States. As Tibetans increasingly move from South Asia to other destinations around the world, the questions Hess raises about Tibetan political allegiance in Immigrant Ambassadors will remain current, and the answers she provides—especially her conclusions regarding ... Read more

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