Grace after Genocide : : Cambodians in the United States / / Carol A. Mortland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Mortland, Carol A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction. From Cambodians to Refugees --; Chapter One. Being in America --; Chapter Two. Economic Survival --; Chapter Three. Refugee Litanies --; Chapter Four. Resettlement Realities --; Chapter Five. Family --; Chapter Six. Parents and Children --; Chapter Seven. Community --; Chapter Eight. Religion --; Chapter Nine. Health --; Chapter Ten. Homeland --; Chapter Eleven. Preserving Culture --; Chapter Twelve. Beyond Refugees --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785334719; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785334719?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carol A. Mortland.

Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from life in agrarian Cambodia to survival in post-industrial America, while maintaining their identities as Cambodians. The ethnography contrasts the lives of refugees who arrived in America after 1975, with their focus on Khmer traditions, values, and relations, with those of their children who, as descendants of the Khmer Rouge catastrophe, have struggled to become Americans in a society that defines them as different. The ethnography explores America’s mid-twentieth-century involvement in Southeast Asia and its enormous consequences on multiple generations of Khmer refugees.