Dr. Dolma Tsering

Dolma Tsering is a post-doctoral research fellow at the International Center for Culture Studies,National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University. She previously worked with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, at National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University and the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, at National Cheng-Kung University. She completed her PhD from the Chinese Division at the East Asian Center at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. For the last two years, she has been working on research projects related to Tibetans in Taiwan. She has published several peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters and also edited a book related to Tibetan and Uyghur Refugees. She frequently writes about Tibet issues and Tibetans in Taiwan at two major English media houses; Taipei Times and News Lens International.

Research Project

Refugees in Countries without Refugee Laws: Exiled Tibetans in India, Nepal, and Taiwan

According to the definition by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): “Refugees are persons who are outside their country of origin for reasons of feared persecution, conflict, generalized violence, or other circumstances that have seriously disturbed public order and, as a result, require international protection.” Based on the UNHCR report, the number of refugees rose to 82.4 million in 2020, and the war between Russia and Ukraine increased even more to set records. It has demonstrated that refugees are not a transient issue but a global reality that cannot be ignored. How do refugees survive? Different from the existing discourses, such as treating refugees as social problems or discussing the life situation of political philosophy, this study adopts the survival strategy orientation of refugees as human beings, especially in countries without refugee laws. This study will focus on exiled Tibetans in  India, Nepal, and Taiwan. How do they negotiate with structural constraints to make a living in these receiving counties? These are the questions to be explored.

Publication

Journal article

Dolma Tsering (2023) “Combatting Communist China: Secret Partnership between Kuomintang and Tibetan rebels during Cold War in Asia” Asian Affairs, (Revised manuscript Submitted)
Dolma Tsering (2023) “Taiwan and the Exiled Tibetan Relations: Exploring Historical Ties and Current Challenges and Opportunities” Asian Ethnicity, 12 September 2023, available at https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2023.2257142
Dolma Tsering (2021) “Structural Transformation and Employment Quality in Tibet: An Empirical Study”, Tibet Journal, Vol.VIII, No.2.

Book chapter

Dolma Tsering and Pan, Mei Lin (2023), “The lived experience of Tibetan refugees in Taiwan: Contesting rights to work, residence, and citizenship” in Lara Momesso and Ivanova Polina “Refugees in East Asia: perspectives from Japan and Taiwan” (Forth Coming)
Dolma Tsering (2022), “Revisiting the Question of Successful Tibetan Exiled Community in India”, in 謝仕淵, [沒有歷史的人},玉山出版社, ISBN：978-626-96004-9-6

Edited Book

Dolma Tsering (2023) Eds, “Tibetan and Uyghur Refugees in the New Colonial Era: Reflection on the rise of the Chinese Colonialism”, National Cheng Kung University Press, ISBN：978-986-56357-7-0