Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America

by Aihwa Ong

Book Overview

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. Buddha Is Hiding tells...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238249
• ISBN13: 9780520238244
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"