Grace After Genocide: Cambodians in the United States

by Carol a Mortland

Book Overview

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from life in agrarian Cambodia to survival in post-industrial America, while maintaining their identities as Cambodians. The ethnography contrasts the lives of refugees who arrived in America after 1975, with their focus on Khmer traditions, values, and relations, with those of their children who, as descendants of the Khmer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785334700
• ISBN13: 9781785334702
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.1"