Buddha Is Hiding Refugees, Citizenship, the New America

Name: Buddha Is Hiding Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
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ISBN: 9780520238244

ISBN-10: 0520238249

ISBN-13: 9780520238244

Edition: 2010

Authors: Aihwa Ong

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Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. 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, the study puts a human face on how American institutions--of health, welfare, law, police, church,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction: Government and Citizenship



In Pol Pot Time



Land of No More Hope



A Hilton in the Border Zone



Governing Through Freedom



The Refugee as an Ethical Figure



Refugee Medicine: Attracting and Deflecting the Gaze



Keeping the House from Burning Down



Refugee Love as Feminist Compassion



Rescuing the Children



Church and Marketplace



The Ambivalence of Salvation



Guns, Gangs, and Doughnut Kings



Reconfigurations of Citizenship



Asian Immigrants as the New Westerners?


Afterword: Assemblages of Human Needs


Notes


Index