Essays about: "Tibetan youth"

Found 2 essays containing the words Tibetan youth.

1. 1. Tibetan, but not from Tibet A Minor Field Study on Tibetan Diasporic Identity in India

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Georgia Sandberg Moustogianni; [2007]
   Keywords : Tibetan youth; diaspora; hyperreality; postcolonialism; hybridity; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This paper is the result of a minor field study (MFS) on Tibetan youth in India. The main research question is: How does the second generation of Tibetans in India express their identity, and what implications does this have on their belonging to a diasporic group? The aim of this paper is to present discourses within the Tibetan diaspora and how the second generation relates to these as well as creates its own. READ MORE

3. 2. Tibetan migration to India - Why, when, how and with what consequences?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Charlotte Pehrson; [2004]
   Keywords : Samhällsvetenskaper; Social sciences; Migration; Tibet; Kina; Indien; China; India; Social geography; Socialgeografi; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : When China occupied Tibet in 1950 in order to "liberate" Tibet from its "economic backwardness" of feudal and religious traditions, the effects were devastating. Tibetans were dispatched to labour camps, monks and nuns were executed or imprisoned, thousands of monasteries and temples were destroyed and communist propaganda was forced upon the Tibetan people. READ MORE