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Cambodian Americans --- Refugees --- Cambodians --- Ethnology --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Social conditions. --- Cambodia --- History --- Social conditions --- United States --- Biography --- 20th century

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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 the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco, the study puts a human face on how American institutions-of health, welfare, law, police, church, and industry-affect minority citizens as they negotiate American culture and re-interpret the American dream. In her earlier book, Flexible Citizenship, anthropologist Aihwa Ong wrote of elite Asians shuttling across the Pacific. This parallel study tells the very different story of "the other Asians" whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. In Buddha Is Hiding we see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being-made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values as they endure and undermine, absorb and deflect conflicting lessons about welfare, work, medicine, gender, parenting, and mass culture. Trying to hold on to the values of family and home culture, Cambodian Americans nonetheless often feel that "Buddha is hiding." Tracing the entangled paths of poor and rich Asians in the American nation, Ong raises new questions about the form and meaning of citizenship in an era of globalization.

Cambodian Americans --- Refugees --- Citizenship --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Cambodians --- Ethnology --- Social conditions. --- Ethnic identity. --- Civil rights --- Social aspects --- Law and legislation --- Oakland (Calif.) --- City of Oakland (Calif.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Américains d'origine cambodgienne --- Réfugiés --- Social conditions --- Ethnic identity --- Conditions sociales --- Identité ethnique --- Family. --- Cambodians. --- Adaptation. --- Refugees. --- Américains d'origine cambodgienne --- Réfugiés --- Citoyenneté --- Droits --- Conditions sociales. --- Identité collective. --- american citizenship. --- american culture. --- american dream. --- american institutions. --- anthropology. --- asia scholars. --- buddhism. --- buddhists. --- california. --- cambodian americans. --- cambodian refugees. --- citizenship experience. --- cultural anthropologists. --- demographic studies. --- ethnic tensions. --- fieldwork. --- globalization. --- minority citizens. --- modern history. --- new america. --- nonfiction study. --- oakland. --- pol pot regime. --- race and class. --- regional history. --- san francisco. --- social sciences. --- southeast asia. --- textbooks. --- welfare. --- Citoyenneté --- Identité collective.

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In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to recreate the fabric of culture and identity in the aftermath of the Khmer holocaust.Based on long-term research among Cambodians residing in metropolitan Boston, this rich ethnography provides a vivid portrait of the challenges facing Khmer American culture as seen from the perspective of elders attempting to preserve Khmer Buddhism in a deeply unfamiliar world. The study highlights the tensions and ambivalences of Khmer socialization, with particular emphasis on Khmer conceptions of personhood, morality, and sexuality. Nancy J. Smith-Hefner considers how this cultural heritage influences the performance of Khmer children in American schools and, ultimately, determines Khmer engagement with American culture.

Cambodian Americans --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Cambodians --- Ethnology --- Ethnic identity --- Religion --- Boston (Mass.) --- Ethnic relations. --- City of Boston (Mass.) --- Beantown (Mass.) --- بوسطن (Mass.) --- Būsṭun (Mass.) --- Бостон (Mass.) --- Горад Бостан (Mass.) --- Horad Bostan (Mass.) --- Бостан (Mass.) --- Bostan (Mass.) --- Бостън (Mass.) --- Bostŭn (Mass.) --- Βοστώνη (Mass.) --- Vostōnē (Mass.) --- Bostono (Mass.) --- بوستون (Mass.) --- Pô-sṳ-tun (Mass.) --- 보스턴 (Mass.) --- Bosŭt'ŏn (Mass.) --- Posŭt'ŏn (Mass.) --- Pokekona (Mass.) --- בוסטון (Mass.) --- Bostonia (Mass.) --- Bostona (Mass.) --- Bostonas (Mass.) --- ボストン (Mass.) --- באסטאן (Mass.) --- Bostons (Mass.) --- 波士顿 (Mass.) --- Boshidun (Mass.)

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Setting the history of Japanese American midwives in context, this book reveals little-known ethnic, racial, and regional aspects of women's history and the history of medicine. It demonstrates the impossibility of separating domestic policy from foreign policy, and public health from racial politics, medical care from women's care giving.

Race Relations --- Health Policy --- Asian Americans --- Midwifery --- Japanese --- Japanese American women --- Midwives --- Nursing specialties --- Birth attendants --- Nurse midwives --- Traditional birth attendants --- Medical personnel --- Women, Japanese American --- Women --- Midwife --- Traditional Birth Attendant --- Birth Attendant, Traditional --- Birth Attendants, Traditional --- Traditional Birth Attendants --- Asian Indian Americans --- Cambodian Americans --- Filipino Americans --- Hmong Americans --- Vietnamese Americans --- Chinese Americans --- Japanese Americans --- Korean Americans --- American, Cambodian --- American, Korean --- American, Vietnamese --- Americans, Asian --- Americans, Cambodian --- Americans, Chinese --- Americans, Filipino --- Americans, Hmong --- Americans, Japanese --- Americans, Korean --- Americans, Vietnamese --- Asian American --- Asian Indian American --- Cambodian American --- Chinese American --- Filipino American --- Hmong American --- Indian American, Asian --- Japanese American --- Korean American --- Vietnamese American --- Healthcare Policy --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policy, National --- Healthcare Policies --- National Health Policies --- Policy, Health --- Policy, Healthcare --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- Interracial Relations --- Racial Relations --- Interracial Relation --- Relation, Interracial --- Relations, Interracial --- Relations, Race --- Relations, Racial --- Psychology, Social --- history --- History. --- Japan --- Emigration and immigration --- Feminism --- Women and literature --- Feminism and literature --- American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Books and reading --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Asians --- Health Care Policies --- Care Policies, Health --- Health Care Policy --- Policies, Health --- Policies, Health Care --- Policies, Healthcare --- Policy, Health Care

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"Every year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses in the face of these challenges, while working at a Veterans hospital. Their stories provide unique insights into the often-unseen roles race, religion and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare. In many ways, these nurses find themselves foreign in more ways than just their nativity. Seeing nursing as a religious calling, they care for their patients, both at the hospital and in the wider community, with a sense of divine purpose but must also confront the cultural tensions and disconnects between how they were raised and trained in another country and the legal separation of church and state. How they cope with and engage these tensions and disconnects plays an important role in not only shaping how they see themselves as Catholic nurses but their place in the new American story"--

Hospitals, Veterans --- Catholicism --- Xenophobia --- Racism --- Asian Americans --- Nurse-Patient Relations --- Nurses, International --- Nurses, Foreign --- Foreign Nurse --- Foreign Nurses --- International Nurse --- International Nurses --- Nurse, Foreign --- Nurse, International --- Nurse Patient Relations --- Nurse Patient Relationship --- Nurse Patient Relationships --- Nurse-Patient Relation --- Patient Relations, Nurse --- Patient Relationship, Nurse --- Patient Relationships, Nurse --- Relations, Nurse Patient --- Relations, Nurse-Patient --- Relationship, Nurse Patient --- Relationships, Nurse Patient --- Covert Racism --- Racial Bias --- Racial Discrimination --- Racial Prejudice --- Everyday Racism --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Discriminations, Racial --- Prejudice, Racial --- Prejudices, Racial --- Racial Discriminations --- Racial Prejudices --- Racism, Covert --- Racism, Everyday --- Apartheid --- Antiracism --- Fear of Strangers --- Phobia, Strangers --- Strangers Phobia --- Roman Catholic Ethics --- Roman Catholicism --- Roman Catholics --- Catholic, Roman --- Catholicism, Roman --- Catholics, Roman --- Ethic, Roman Catholic --- Ethics, Roman Catholic --- Roman Catholic --- Roman Catholic Ethic --- Veterans Hospitals --- Hospital, Veterans --- Veterans Hospital --- Asian Indian Americans --- Cambodian Americans --- Filipino Americans --- Hmong Americans --- Vietnamese Americans --- Chinese Americans --- Japanese Americans --- Korean Americans --- American, Cambodian --- American, Korean --- American, Vietnamese --- Americans, Asian --- Americans, Cambodian --- Americans, Chinese --- Americans, Filipino --- Americans, Hmong --- Americans, Japanese --- Americans, Korean --- Americans, Vietnamese --- Asian American --- Asian Indian American --- Asians --- Cambodian American --- Chinese American --- Filipino American --- Hmong American --- Indian American, Asian --- Japanese American --- Korean American --- Vietnamese American --- United States --- Filipino, Filipina, Indian, immigrant, migrant, nurse, nursing, nurses, veterans hospital, health, health care, Asians, Asian Americans, medicine, race, nationality, religion, religious calling, Catholic, American, Filipino American, Filipina American, Indian American, healthcare, sociology, ethnography, foreign.