Title Buddha is hiding : refugees, citizenship, the new America / Aihwa Ong

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 333 pages) : illustrations Series California series in public anthropology ; 5 California series in public anthropology ; 5. Contents Illustrations; acknowledgments; prologue; Introduction: Government and Citizenship; part I: In Pol Pot Time; part II: Governing through Freedom; part III: Church and Marketplace; part IV: Reconfigurations of Citizenship; Afterword: Assemblages of Human Needs; notes; index Summary This work tells the story of Cambodians whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. We see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Cambodian Americans -- California -- Oakland -- Social conditions Cambodian Americans -- California -- Oakland -- Ethnic identity Cambodian Americans -- Civil rights -- California -- Oakland Refugees -- California -- Oakland -- Social conditions Refugees -- Civil rights -- California -- Oakland Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Cambodian Americans -- Ethnic identity Cambodian Americans -- Social conditions Citizenship -- Social aspects Ethnic relations Refugees -- Civil rights Refugees -- Social conditions Social conditions SUBJECT Oakland (Calif.) -- Social conditions Oakland (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations Subject California -- Oakland United States Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520937161 0520937163 1417522798 9781417522798 159734513X 9781597345132 9786612762925 6612762926 1282762923 9781282762923

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