Tibetans in Nepal

The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57181-686-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 362 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities. The author explores the ways in which Tibetan exiles in Nepal negotiate their norms and values as they interact with the many international organizations that assist them, and comes to the conclusion that, as beneficial as aid agency assistance often is, it also complicates the Tibetans' efforts to define themselves as a community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frechette, Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

A Note on Tibetan Translations and Transliterations

Introduction: Entitlement Systems and Identity Politics

Chapter 1. Swiss Assistance and Self-Sufficiency

Chapter 2. Containing Communism: The U.S. and a Tibetan Democracy

Chapter 3. Friends of Tibet: Variations on a Theme of Liberal Humanism

Chapter 4. Weapons of Weak States

Chapter 5. Middlemen and Moral Authority

Chapter 6. Conflict and Consciousness

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Frechette, Ann
Ann Frechette is Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research in Cambridge Massachusetts.