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The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan

Resilience and Survival

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  • © 2016

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  1. Venkat Pulla
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Who Are the Lhotsampa? What Caused Their Flight from Bhutan?

    • Venkat Pulla
    Pages 1-12

  3. Around the Period of Crisis

    • Venkat Pulla, Prahlad Dahal
    Pages 13-29

  4. Life in Refugee Camps

    • Venkat Pulla, Prahlad Dahal
    Pages 31-45

  5. “Human Rights and Inhuman Wrongs”: The Year 1990 in Review

    • Venkat Pulla, Asmita Dhital
    Pages 47-59

  6. Settling in Australia

    • Venkat Pulla, Sarjoh Bah
    Pages 61-78

  7. Resettlement Perspectives of Bhutanese Refugees: A Place Called Home with a Future

    • Venkat Pulla, Devika Rai
    Pages 79-93

  8. Spirituality, Coping, and Resilience of the Lhotsampa

    • Jennifer Woods, Venkat Pulla
    Pages 95-119

  9. Beyond Cultural Competence: Working Across Cultures in a Globalized World

    • Narayan Gopalkrishnan, Venkat Pulla
    Pages 121-143

  10. Settlement Planning for Refugees: Australia and the United States

    • Venkat Pulla, Om Dhungel
    Pages 145-163

  11. The Concluding Theme: Survival and Resilience Through Spirituality

    • Venkat Pulla
    Pages 165-177

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 179-184
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This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses. The story of the Lhotsampa people 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.

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“The editor and authors deserve appreciation for their passion in researching a community on which there is an absolute lack of previous literature. … this book is successful in communicating the painstaking details of the now global Lhotsampa community. An essential read, it deserves to be at the top of the table of human rights policy makers, sociologists, anthropologists, development studies experts and of course, those pursuing research on Gross National Happiness.” (Rituparna Bhattacharyya, South Asia Research, Vol. 37 (1), February, 2017)


"The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan highlights the plight of a highly oppressed and excluded people group whose voices have been silenced and overlooked. Venkat Pulla and colleagues skillfully examine the nuanced issues of culture, intergenerational conflicts in resettlement, human rights abuses, discrimination and exclusion, the refugee experience, and reintegration after resettlement." Vishanthie Sewpaul, Senior Professor of Social Work, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

'Despite its claims about 'gross national happiness,' Bhutan is one of the world's largest per capita producers of refugees. This book clearly challenges this happiness myth by exposing the gross hypocrisy at the heart of Bhutan's treatment of its people.' Paul Power, CEO, Refugee Council of Australia

'With the emasculation of human rights in the 'Land of the Dragon,' Bhutan is anything but a Shangri-La. I recommend this book for everyone who wishes to know about how the Drukpa treated the Lhotsampa people.' Fernand de Varennes, Faculté de droit, Université de Moncton, Canada

About the authors

Prahlad Dahal, Cairns and Region Multicultural Association, Australia Asmita Dhittal, SAATH, Nepal Sarjoh Bah, Auburn Diversity Services Inc., Australia Devika Rai, Pokhara University, Nepal Jennifer Woods, Charles Sturt University, Australia Narayan Gopalkrishnan, James Cook University, Australia Om Dhungel, SEVA International, Australia

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