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Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Aihwa Ong Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-520-23824-9 / 0520238249 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23824-4 / 9780520238244 Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be sel |