05804nam 22011894a 450 991077707270332120230207223316.01-59734-513-X97866127629250-520-93716-31-282-76292-310.1525/9780520937161(CKB)1000000000001100(EBL)224779(OCoLC)475931924(SSID)ssj0000115379(PQKBManifestationID)11146003(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115379(PQKBWorkID)10007777(PQKB)11069949(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056053(MiAaPQ)EBC224779(DE-B1597)521128(OCoLC)1114842018(DE-B1597)9780520937161(Au-PeEL)EBL224779(CaPaEBR)ebr10058584(CaONFJC)MIL276292(dli)HEB33859(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001069(EXLCZ)99100000000000110020030129d2003 ub 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrBuddha is hiding[electronic resource] refugees, citizenship, the new America /Aihwa OngBerkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (355 p.)California series in public anthropology ;5Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22998-3 0-520-23824-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --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 --IndexFleeing 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.California series in public anthropology ;5.Refugees, citizenship, the new AmericaCambodian AmericansCaliforniaOaklandSocial conditionsCambodian AmericansCaliforniaOaklandEthnic identityCambodian AmericansCivil rightsCaliforniaOaklandRefugeesCaliforniaOaklandSocial conditionsRefugeesCivil rightsCaliforniaOaklandCitizenshipSocial aspectsUnited StatesCase studiesOakland (Calif.)Social conditionsOakland (Calif.)Ethnic relationsamerican 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.Cambodian AmericansSocial conditions.Cambodian AmericansEthnic identity.Cambodian AmericansCivil rightsRefugeesSocial conditions.RefugeesCivil rightsCitizenshipSocial aspects305.895/93079466Ong Aihwa622540MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777072703321Buddha is hiding1772750UNINA