1. BHUTANESE CULTURAL PROFILE - Please look this paper over! This is an excellent cultural profile summary of the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese (Lhotsampa).
2. BHUTANESE REFUGEE HISTORY - Below is an interactive link to a well written and photographed brief history of the resettling of Bhutanese refugees.
· Chapter 1 – Fleeing Conflict
· Chapter 2 - Stay or Go
· Chapter 3 - Departure Time
· Chapter 4 - Prep Outside Camps
· Chapter 5 – A Bright Future
http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2015/BhutaneseRefugees/
3. BHUTANESE SUICIDE - An Investigation into Bhutanese suicides among Bhutanese Refugees living in the U.S. – this is a four year study put out by the CDC
4. BHUTANESE WOMEN & ABUSE- Nepal/Bhutan: Refugee Women Face Abuses
5. BHUTANESE WOMEN & INEQUALITY - View and download this 77 page report entitled Bhutan/Nepal - Trapped by Inequality: Bhutanese Refugee Women in Nepal on website below – report exposes the uneven response of the UNHCR and Nepalese government to rape, domestic violence, sexual and physical assault, and trafficking of girls and women from refugee camps. Several testimonies are from Bhutanese refugee women sexually abused in Bhutan and then traumatized further in the refugee camps of Nepal.
6. OTHER EXCELLENT RESOURCES - Other resources cited in the ethno MED website (#1 above). See links below:
Bhutanese Refugee Story - From Nepal to Seattle's Rainier Valley by Pangeality Productions
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This video is the story of Khem Rizal and his family, Bhutanese refugees who after living in a UN camp in SE Nepal for 18 years, were recently resettled in Seattle's Rainier Valley. In this short piece, originally produced for the The Seattle Channel's program City Stream , the producer visited the bamboo hut where the Rizal's used to live, documenting the journey Bhutanese refugees make as they begin new lives here in the Pacific Northwest.
Bhutanese Refugees: The Story of a Forgotten People
This website is a collaboration between PhotoVoice and the Bhutanese Refugee Support Group, two organizations which have worked closely with the Bhutanese refugees. Includes photos taken by children in the refugee camps.
Cultural Orientaton Center Resource Center has multiple resources including the history and environment in exile, resettlement background and information, characteristics of the population, and a 22- minute video of interviews with refugees from Bhutan talking about their refugee background.