Reframing refugees: the power of Tibetan identity.
This paper explores how Tibetans in exile as refugees, challenge typical constructs of "the refugee" and exemplify how a people are able to empower themselves even within contexts that mitigate against it. It contributes to a growing body of scholarship that attempts to reframe refugee studies and overturn conventional paradigms that conceptually marginalize and victimize people who are refugees. The paper is based on field-work conducted in Tibetan settlements in India in 1993-1994 in which the author investigated issues of Tibetan identity within the context of international politics.
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Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia.
D000069:Acculturation; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D011057:Politics; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology; D012933:Social Identification; D018609:Tibet / Q000208:ethnology