Buddha Is Hiding tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom up.
Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco, this study puts a human face on the impact of U.S. institutions
-- medical, social welfare, judicial, religious, and economic -- on refugees who are negotiating a strange new
culture.
Table of Contents
1. Land of No More Hope
2. A Hilton in the Border Zone
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
8. The Ambivalence of Salvation
9. Guns, Gangs, and Doughnut Kings
10. Asian Immigrants as the New Westerners?
