Immigrant Ambassadors: Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora

List of Figures and Tables......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Note on Tibetan Transliteration......Page 11
Introduction: “We Will Always Hold Tibet in Our Hearts”......Page 12
Part I Locating the Tibetan Diaspora in a World of Nation-States......Page 27
1 Tibet in Diaspora: Locating the Homeland from the Margins of Exile......Page 28
2 India, New Mexico, and the Specter of Tibet: On the Trail of the Tibetan Diaspora......Page 37
3 “Tibetanness” Where There Is No Tibet: Culture in a World of Nation-States......Page 61
4 Refugees to Citizens, Tibetans, and the State......Page 89
Part II Expanding the Diaspora, Transforming Tibetanness......Page 113
5 The Tibetan U.S. Resettlement Project: The Lottery, the “Lucky 1,000,” and Immigrant Ambassadors......Page 114
6 Tibetans in India: Deterritorialized Culture, Occidental Longing, and Global Imaginaries......Page 145
Part III Tibetans in the United States......Page 175
7 A New Home in Diaspora: The First Years of the TUSRP, 1992–1996......Page 176
8 “Culture Is Your Base Camp”: Tibetans in New Mexico, Youth, and Cultural Identity......Page 193
9 Statelessness and the State: The Meanings of Citizenship......Page 223
Conclusion: Tibetans in the New World......Page 236
Notes......Page 242
References Cited......Page 252
Index......Page 270