Tibetans in Nepal : : The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile / / Ann Frechette.

• VerfasserIn: Frechette, Ann,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Forced Migration ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities. The author explores the ways in which Tibetan exiles in Nepal negotiate their norms and values as they interact with the many international organizations that assist them, and comes to the conclusion that, as beneficial as aid agency assistance often is, it also complicates the Tibetans' efforts to define themselves as a community.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Tibetan Translations and Transliterations -- Introduction: Entitlement Systems and Identity Politics -- 1 Swiss Assistance and Self-Sufficiency -- 2 Containing Communism: The U.S. and a Tibetan Democracy -- 3 Friends of Tibet: Variations on a Theme of Liberal Humanism -- 4 Weapons of Weak States -- 5 Middlemen and Moral Authority -- 6 Conflict and Consciousness -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Index