{"product_id":"buddha-is-hiding-refugees-citizenship-the-new-america-california-series-in-public-anthropology-volume-5-9780520238244","title":"Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees  Citizenship  the New America (California Series in Public Anthropology) (Volume 5)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime  Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of Americas 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 institutionsof health  welfare  law  police  church  and industryaffect 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 Californias 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647921217589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520238249","price":22.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520238244.jpg?v=1781699876","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/buddha-is-hiding-refugees-citizenship-the-new-america-california-series-in-public-anthropology-volume-5-9780520238244","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}