Buddha Is Hiding (Parts 1 and 2)

• Male mobility linked to masculine ability to earn a livelihood, as well as virility and prowess.
• Border camps are sites for production of particular kinds of refugee subjects.
• Lived meanings of citizenship are entangled with systems of exclusion, selection, and judgment.
• American imperialist domination overseas is central to ways America imagines destiny and cultural exceptionalism

***Who set terms of belonging in the first place?

***Categories for a mass society

***Regime of forgetting “such memories were the connecting tissue to her past, and her ongoing grief.”

• Traditional Cambodian therapies were community activities, reducing social isolation and strengthening social bonds.
• Females were instructed to treat bodies as manipulable machines, divorced from emotional, social, and political contexts.
• Relationship between welfare and worker and client is one where worker judges client’s eligibility
• Problems with welfare:  Always trying to save for the future…encourages employment but penalizes those who seek to increase family income
• Refugee men grapple with implications as subjects of a legal system, not of family honor codes.
• Refugee studies, medicine, welfare, law, feminism – technologies of power that defined and direct clients in everyday life with goal of consituting citizen-subjects who were self-reliant, productive, provident, and free.