Re-imagining citizenship: The dillemas facing the Tibetan diaspora in India

Coelho, J.P.

dc.contributor.author	Coelho, J.P.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-28T06:21:58Z
dc.date.available	2016-09-28T06:21:58Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.citation	Diaspora and Migration: Cultural Identity, Citizenship and Policy Challenges, Ed. By: Swati Shirwadkar. Dept. Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. 2015; 83-100.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/507
dc.description.abstract	While most refugee communities aspire for citizenship in the host country, the Tibetan refugees in India have traditionally desisted from assimilation and citizenship. Under Indian law, anyone born between January 26, 1950 and July 1, 1987 on Indian soil is automatically an Indian citizen. This was quoted to include Tibetans by a Delhi High Court in its decision on 22 December 2010. Through extensive interviews and interactions with Tibetans in various Tibetans settlements in India, as well as a review of secondary data, this paper tries to understand the challenges that citizenship brings to one of the most successful nations in exile.
dc.publisher	Dept. Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
dc.subject	Sociology	en_US
dc.title	Re-imagining citizenship: The dillemas facing the Tibetan diaspora in India	en_US
dc.type	Book chapter	en_US