The Lhotsampa people of Bhutan [electronic resource] : resilience and survival / edited by Venkat Pulla.
Pulla, Venkat, 1952- editor.
2016
JC599.B47
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Title The Lhotsampa people of Bhutan [electronic resource] : resilience and survival / edited by Venkat Pulla.
ISBN 9781137551429 (electronic book)
1137551429 (electronic book)
9781137557216
1137557214
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137551429
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1057/9781137551429 doi
Call Number JC599.B47
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.8914/9505498
Summary "This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses. In the 1890's the government of Bhutan allowed many ethnic Nepalese people into the country to clear Bhutanese jungles in the south of the country. Barely a century later, the Lhotshampa, meaning people who lived in the South, constituted 45% 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 Bhutenese Drukpa government enacted a number of policies in the 1980s and 1990s designed to expel the Lhotshampa people. For over two decades, more than 100,000 Lhotshampa lived in refugee camps in Nepal, yet the global community remained largely ignorant. The Lhotshampa demonstrated extraordinary handling of adversity through spiritual meaning making, and this book is a testimony to their survival and the resilience that allowed them to build new lives against heavy odds. "-- Provided by publisher.
""This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses. The story of the Lhotsampa 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"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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List of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1.Who are Lhotsampa? What caused their flight from Bhutan?; Venkat Pulla2.Around the time of crisis; Venkat Pulla & Prahlad Dahal3.Life in refugee camps; Venkat Pulla & Prahlad Dahal 4.Human rights and inhuman wrongs: the year in review 1990, Bhutan; Venkat Pulla & Asmita Dhittal5.Settling in Australia; Venkat Pulla & Sarjoh Bah6.Resettlement perspectives of Bhutanese refugees: a place called home with future; Venkat Pulla & Devika Rai7.Spiritualty, Coping and resilience of Lhotshampa; Jennifer Woods & Venkat Pulla8.Beyond Cultural Competence: Working across cultures in a globalized world; Narayan Gopalkrishnan & Venkat Pulla9.Settlement planning for refugees: Australia and US; Venkat Pulla & Om Dhungel 10.The concluding theme: Survival and resilience and spirituality; Venkat Pulla List of ContributorsIndex.

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