Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora

By: Julia Meredith Hess

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Synopsis: Hess (anthropology, U. of New Mexico) examines articulations of Tibetanness among stateless Tibetans in India and among Tibetans resettled in the United States and in the process of becoming US citizens. She describes a transformation of diaspora consciousness among the Tibetans giving up their stateless status and adopting US citizenship through an examination of Tibetan responses to the bureaucratic processes required to procure identity documents, travel documents, visas, asylum applications, citizenship ceremonies, and passports. She finds that the Tibetans involved in the Tibetan US Resettlement Project invest citizenship with multiple meanings and that many are adopting US citizenship in an effort to become more effective transnational political actors in the cause of an independent Tibet. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780804776318
Related ISBNs:: 9780804760171
Publisher:: Stanford University Press
Date of Addition:: 05/16/17
Copyrighted By:: the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.