The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan: Resilience and Survival

ISBN-13: 9781137557216 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 184 str.

Venkat Pulla

Opis

Through firsthand research and a historical, political, and cultural examination of the Lhotsampa people in Bhutan, this book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses. In the 1890s, the government of Bhutan allowed many Nepalese people into the country to clear Bhutanese jungles in the south of the country. Barely a century later, the Lhotsampa constituted 45 percent of the country's population. They lived as an agrarian community, and their position as food suppliers for Bhutan helped them to achieve educational, economic, and political success. With this rise in prosperity, the Bhutanese Drukpa government enacted a number of policies in the 1980s and 1990s designed to expel the Lhotsampa people. For over two decades, more than 100,000 Lhotsampa lived in refugee camps in Nepal, yet the global community remained largely ignorant. The Lhotsampa demonstrated extraordinary handling of adversity; this book is a testimony to their survival and the resilience that allowed them to build new lives against heavy odds.

Recenzje

"The editor and authors deserve appreciation for their passion in researching a community on which there is an absolute lack of previous literature. ... this book is successful in communicating the painstaking details of the now global Lhotsampa community. An essential read, it deserves to be at the top of the table of human rights policy makers, sociologists, anthropologists, development studies experts and of course, those pursuing research on Gross National Happiness." (Rituparna Bhattacharyya, South Asia Research, Vol. 37 (1), February, 2017)

Spis treści

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Who are Lhotsampa? What caused their flight from Bhutan?; Venkat Pulla
2. Around the time of crisis; Venkat Pulla & Prahlad Dahal
3. Life in refugee camps; Venkat Pulla & Prahlad Dahal
4. Human rights and inhuman wrongs: the year in review 1990, Bhutan; Venkat Pulla & Asmita Dhittal
5. Settling in Australia; Venkat Pulla & Sarjoh Bah
6. Resettlement perspectives of Bhutanese refugees: a place called home with future; Venkat Pulla & Devika Rai
7. Spiritualty, Coping and resilience of Lhotshampa; Jennifer Woods & Venkat Pulla
8. Beyond Cultural Competence: Working across cultures in a globalized world; Narayan Gopalkrishnan & Venkat Pulla
9. Settlement planning for refugees: Australia and US; Venkat Pulla & Om Dhungel
10. The concluding theme: Survival and resilience and spirituality; Venkat Pulla
List of Contributors
Index

O autorze

Prahlad Dahal, Cairns and Region Multicultural Association, Australia Asmita Dhittal, SAATH, Nepal Sarjoh Bah, Auburn Diversity Services Inc., Australia Devika Rai, Pokhara University, Nepal Jennifer Woods, Charles Sturt University, Australia Narayan Gopalkrishnan, James Cook University, Australia Om Dhungel, SEVA International, Australia