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Informationen zum Autor Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California! Berkeley. She is the author of Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationalism (1999) and Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987)! and the editor of Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (1997) and Bewitching Women! Pious Men: Gender and Labor Politics in Southeast Asia (California! 1995). Klappentext "In this tour-de-force ethnography! acclaimed anthropologist Aihwa Ong trains her awesome ethnographic and theoretic talents on the brutal forces reconfiguring citizenship in a globalized world of war refugees! economic immigrants! and technicians of the modern soul. A work of breathtaking brilliance! beauty! perception and compassion that should bestir Buddha and the rest of us to action."-Judith Stacey! author of Brave New Families "In this impressive and substantial work! Ong brings together rich ethnographies of Southeast Asia immigrants with a conceptually deft and poignant analysis of the human technologies of citizen-making. At stake is no less than a radical rethinking of the conditions of life! the meaning of the human! and a conception of power beyond the confines of traditional sovereignty."-Judith Butler! author of The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection "Ong's vivid ethnography! filtered through her astute theoretical gaze! transforms and enlarges our understandings of immigration and citizenship in an increasingly multicultural nation. Ong closely follows the everyday lives of Cambodian refugees in California! as they struggle to make sense of! selectively embrace! and talk back to American demands for personal autonomy! narcissism! greed! and materialism! which fly in the face of Cambodian values of compassion! community! and reciprocity. Like her subjects' lives! this book is a marvelous and remarkable achievement."-Nancy Scheper-Hughes! author of Death without Weeping Zusammenfassung Tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. This study aims to put 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Government and Citizenship PART I. IN POL POT TIME 1. Land of No More Hope 2. A Hilton in the Border Zone PART II. GOVERNING THROUGH FREEDOM 3. The Refugee as an Ethical Figure 4. Refugee Medicine: Attracting and Deflecting the Gaze 5. Keeping the House from Burning Down 6. Refugee Love as Feminist Compassion 7. Rescuing the Children PART III. CHURCH AND MARKETPLACE 8. The Ambivalence of Salvation 9. Guns! Gangs! and Doughnut Kings PART IV. RECONFIGURATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP 10. Asian Immigrants as the New Westerners? Afterword: Assemblages of Human Needs Notes Index ...
