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Buddha is hiding : refugees, citizenship, the new America / Aihwa Ong.
LIBRA F869.O2 O54 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ong, Aihwa.
- Series:
- California series in public anthropology ; 5.
- California series in public anthropology ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cambodian Americans--California--Oakland--Social conditions.
- Cambodian Americans.
- Cambodian Americans--California--Oakland--Ethnic identity.
- Cambodian Americans--Civil rights--California--Oakland.
- Refugees--California--Oakland--Social conditions.
- Refugees.
- Refugees--Civil rights--California--Oakland.
- Citizenship--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Citizenship.
- Citizenship--Social aspects.
- Refugees--Civil rights.
- Social conditions.
- Civil rights.
- Ethnicity.
- Oakland (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Oakland (Calif.).
- Oakland (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- California--Oakland.
- California.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Buddha Is Hiding tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco, this study puts a human face on the impact of U.S. institutions -- medical, social welfare, judicial, religious, and economic -- on refugees who are negotiating a strange new culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Government and Citizenship 1
- Part I. In Pol Pot Time
- 1. Land of No More Hope 25
- 2. A Hilton in the Border Zone 48
- Part II. Governing Through Freedom
- 3. The Refugee as an Ethical Figure 69
- 4. Refugee Medicine: Attracting and Deflecting the Gaze 91
- 5. Keeping the House from Burning Down 122
- 6. Refugee Love as Feminist Compassion 142
- 7. Rescuing the Children 168
- Part III. Church and Marketplace
- 8. The Ambivalence of Salvation 195
- 9. Guns, Gangs, and Doughnut Kings 229
- Part IV. Reconfigurations of Citizenship
- 10. Asian Immigrants as the New Westerners? 253
- Afterword: Assemblages of Human Needs 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-321) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0520229983
- 0520238249
- OCLC:
- 51581480
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