The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan
eBook - PDF

The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan

Resilience and Survival

  1. 191 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan

Resilience and Survival

About this book

This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses. The story of the Lhotsampa people of Bhutan describes their journey of coping and resilience, incorporating qualitative research undertaken in the refugee camps in Nepal and resettlement areas in Australia and elsewhere in the world.

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Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781137557216
eBook ISBN
9781137551429

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Who Are the Lhotsampa? What Caused Their Flight from Bhutan?
  10. 2 Around the Period of Crisis
  11. 3 Life in Refugee Camps
  12. 4 “Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs”: The Year 1990 in Review
  13. 5 Settling in Australia
  14. 6 Resettlement Perspectives of Bhutanese Refugees: A Place Called Home with a Future
  15. 7 Spirituality, Coping, and Resilience of the Lhotsampa
  16. 8 Beyond Cultural Competence: Working Across Cultures in a Globalized World
  17. 9 Settlement Planning for Refugees: Australia and the United States
  18. The Concluding Theme: Survival and Resilience Through Spirituality
  19. Notes on Contributers
  20. Index

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