LEADER 05049nam 22009254a 450 001 9910959791303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612762925 010 $a9781597345132 010 $a159734513X 010 $a9780520937161 010 $a0520937163 010 $a9781282762923 010 $a1282762923 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520937161 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001100 035 $a(EBL)224779 035 $a(OCoLC)475931924 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000115379 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146003 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115379 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10007777 035 $a(PQKB)11069949 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056053 035 $a(DE-B1597)521128 035 $a(OCoLC)1114842018 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520937161 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224779 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058584 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276292 035 $a(dli)HEB33859 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001069 035 $a(Perlego)552575 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224779 035 $a(MiU)MIU01100000000000000001069 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001100 100 $a20030129d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuddha is hiding $erefugees, citizenship, the new America /$fAihwa Ong 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 225 1 $aCalifornia series in public anthropology ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780520229983 311 08$a0520229983 311 08$a9780520238244 311 08$a0520238249 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$tIntroduction: Government and Citizenship --$tPart I. In Pol Pot Time --$tPART II. Governing through Freedom --$tPART III. Church and Marketplace --$tPART IV. Reconfigurations of Citizenship --$tAfterword: Assemblages of Human Needs --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aFleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. Buddha Is Hiding tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco, the study puts a human face on how American institutions-of health, welfare, law, police, church, and industry-affect minority citizens as they negotiate American culture and re-interpret the American dream. In her earlier book, Flexible Citizenship, anthropologist Aihwa Ong wrote of elite Asians shuttling across the Pacific. This parallel study tells the very different story of "the other Asians" whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. In Buddha Is Hiding we see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being-made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values as they endure and undermine, absorb and deflect conflicting lessons about welfare, work, medicine, gender, parenting, and mass culture. Trying to hold on to the values of family and home culture, Cambodian Americans nonetheless often feel that "Buddha is hiding." Tracing the entangled paths of poor and rich Asians in the American nation, Ong raises new questions about the form and meaning of citizenship in an era of globalization. 410 0$aCalifornia series in public anthropology ;$v5. 517 3 $aRefugees, citizenship, the new America 606 $aCambodian Americans$zCalifornia$zOakland$xSocial conditions 606 $aCambodian Americans$zCalifornia$zOakland$xEthnic identity 606 $aCambodian Americans$xCivil rights$zCalifornia$zOakland 606 $aRefugees$zCalifornia$zOakland$xSocial conditions 606 $aRefugees$xCivil rights$zCalifornia$zOakland 606 $aCitizenship$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$vCase studies 607 $aOakland (Calif.)$xSocial conditions 607 $aOakland (Calif.)$xEthnic relations 615 0$aCambodian Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aCambodian Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aCambodian Americans$xCivil rights 615 0$aRefugees$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aRefugees$xCivil rights 615 0$aCitizenship$xSocial aspects 676 $a305.895/93079466 700 $aOng$b Aihwa$0622540 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959791303321 996 $aBuddha is hiding$91772750 997 $aUNINA