Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
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Köp båda 2 för 857 kr"A fascinating look at an often overlooked group of Asian Americans, Buddha Is Hiding takes the reader on an ethnographic journey with Cambodian refugees as they negotiate American citizenship in an American system that tries to produce a particular type of liberal, economic, and individual subject."
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationalism (1999) and Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987), and the editor of Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (1997) and Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Labor Politics in Southeast Asia (California, 1995).
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Government and Citizenship PART I. IN POL POT TIME 1. Land of No More Hope 2. A Hilton in the Border Zone PART II. GOVERNING THROUGH FREEDOM 3. The Refugee as an Ethical Figure 4. Refugee Medicine: Attracting and Deflecting the Gaze 5. Keeping the House from Burning Down 6. Refugee Love as Feminist Compassion 7. Rescuing the Children PART III. CHURCH AND MARKETPLACE 8. The Ambivalence of Salvation 9. Guns, Gangs, and Doughnut Kings PART IV. RECONFIGURATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP 10. Asian Immigrants as the New Westerners? Afterword: Assemblages of Human Needs Notes Index