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This work tells the story of Cambodians whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. We see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ong, Aihwa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 5.
Subjects:
Cambodian Americans > California > Oakland > Social conditions.
Cambodian Americans > California > Oakland > Ethnic identity.
Cambodian Americans > Civil rights > California > Oakland.
Refugees > California > Oakland > Social conditions.
Refugees > Civil rights > California > Oakland.
Citizenship > Social aspects > United States > Case studies.
Américains d'origine cambodgienne > Californie > Oakland > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine cambodgienne > Identité ethnique > Californie > Oakland.
Américains d'origine cambodgienne > Droits > Californie > Oakland.
Réfugiés > Californie > Oakland > Conditions sociales.
Réfugiés > Droits > Californie > Oakland.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Cambodian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Cambodian Americans > Social conditions.
Citizenship > Social aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Refugees > Civil rights.
Refugees > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Oakland (Calif.) > Social conditions.
Oakland (Calif.) > Ethnic relations.
California > Oakland.
United States.
Case studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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; index.

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