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Author Ong, Aihwa.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 333 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series California series in public anthropology ; 5
California series in public anthropology ; 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and 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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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.
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Subject Cambodian Americans -- California -- Oakland -- Social conditions.
Cambodian Americans.
California -- Oakland.
Social conditions.
Cambodian Americans -- California -- Oakland -- Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Cambodian Americans -- Civil rights -- California -- Oakland.
Civil rights.
California.
Refugees -- California -- Oakland -- Social conditions.
Refugees.
Refugees -- Civil rights -- California -- Oakland.
Refugees -- Civil rights.
Citizenship -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
Citizenship -- Social aspects.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Citizenship.
Oakland (Calif.) -- Social conditions.
Oakland (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Ong, Aihwa. Buddha is hiding. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520229983 0520238249 (DLC) 2003001857 (OCoLC)51581480
ISBN 9780520937161 (electronic book)
0520937163 (electronic book)
1417522798 (electronic book)
9781417522798 (electronic book)
0520229983 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520229983 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520238249 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780520238244 (paperback ; alkaline paper)