{"product_id":"immigrant-ambassadors-citizenship-and-belonging-in-the-tibetan-diaspora-9780804760171","title":"Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibetans and their families to immigrate to the United States; a decade later the total U.S. population includes some 10,000 Tibetans. Not only is the social fact of the migration--its historical and political contexts--of interest, but also how migration and resettlement in the U.S. reflect emergent identity formations among members of a stateless society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImmigrant Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e examines Tibetan identity at a critical juncture in the diaspora's expansion, and argues that increased migration to the West is both facilitated and marked by changing understandings of what it means to be a twenty-first-century Tibetan--deterritorialized, activist, and cosmopolitan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Meredith Hess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804760171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/08\/2009 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2009 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJulia Meredith Hess is an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40141676576883,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_04210ead-bf5c-4b11-89fe-5f502ab486c1.jpg?v=1654521438","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/immigrant-ambassadors-citizenship-and-belonging-in-the-tibetan-diaspora-9780804760171","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}