Tibetans in India: Deterritorialized Culture, Occidental Longing, and Global Imaginaries
Tibetans in India: Deterritorialized Culture, Occidental Longing, and Global Imaginaries
This chapter examines the ways in which Tibetans conceive of culture and Tibetanness and how these are highlighted by the anxiety and excitement caused by increasing numbers of people choosing to go abroad. It highlights the distinction between “newcomers,” or recently arrived refugees from Tibet, and Tibetans born in exile, and their reasons for migration, and for staying in India. The chapter argues that such an examination helps in understanding the transformation of Tibetan subjectivities in the expanding diaspora.
Keywords: migration, Tibetanness, refugees, diaspora
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