Lhotsampa People of Bhutan

Prahlad Dahal, Cairns and Region Multicultural Association, Australia Asmita Dhittal, SAATH, Nepal Sarjoh Bah, Auburn Diversity Services Inc., Australia Devika Rai, Pokhara University, Nepal Jennifer Woods, Charles Sturt University, Australia Narayan Gopalkrishnan, James Cook University, Australia Om Dhungel, SEVA International, Australia

"The editor and authors deserve appreciation for their passion in researching a community on which there is an absolute lack of previous literature. ... this book is successful in communicating the painstaking details of the now global Lhotsampa community. An essential read, it deserves to be at the top of the table of human rights policy makers, sociologists, anthropologists, development studies experts and of course, those pursuing research on Gross National Happiness." (Rituparna Bhattacharyya, South Asia Research, Vol. 37 (1), February, 2017)

• List of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Who are Lhotsampa? What caused their flight from Bhutan?; Venkat Pulla2. Around the time of crisis; Venkat Pulla & Prahlad Dahal3. Life in refugee camps; Venkat Pulla & Prahlad Dahal 4. Human rights and inhuman wrongs: the year in review 1990, Bhutan; Venkat Pulla & Asmita Dhittal5. Settling in Australia; Venkat Pulla & Sarjoh Bah6. Resettlement perspectives of Bhutanese refugees: a place called home with future; Venkat Pulla & Devika Rai7. Spiritualty, Coping and resilience of Lhotshampa; Jennifer Woods & Venkat Pulla8. Beyond Cultural Competence: Working across cultures in a globalized world; Narayan Gopalkrishnan & Venkat Pulla9. Settlement planning for refugees: Australia and US; Venkat Pulla & Om Dhungel 10. The concluding theme: Survival and resilience and spirituality; Venkat Pulla List of ContributorsIndex