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Homecomings
Unsettling Paths of Return
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2004
Summary
Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research. Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson destabilize the key oppositions and the key terminologies that have vexed migration studies for decades, analyzing migration and repatriation; home and homeland; and host, returnee, and newcomer through a comparative ethnographic lens. The volume provides rich answers to the following questions: _ Does group repatriation, sponsored and sometimes coerced by national governments or supranational organizations, create resettlement conditions more or less favorable than those experienced by individuals or families who made this journey alone? _ How important are first impressions, living conditions, and initial reception in shaping the experience of home in the homeland? _ What are the expectations that a mythologized homeland encourages in those who have left? Filling a conspicuous gap in the literature on migration in diverse fields such as anthropology, politics, international law, and cultural studies, Homecomings and the gripping ethnographic studies included in the volume demonstrate that a home and a homeland remain salient cultural imperatives that can inspire a call to political action.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-0952-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-5598-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
216
Product type
Edited Book
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1 Homecomings to the Future: From Diasporic Mythographies to Social Projects of Return Anders H. Stefansson No access
2 The Home(s) of Homecomings Fran Markowitz No access
3 Tigrayan Returnees' Notions of Home: Five Variations on a Theme Laura Hammond No access
4 Sarajevo Suffering: Homecoming and the Hierarchy of Homeland Hardship Anders H. Stefansson No access
5 Extra Hungariam Non Est Vita? The Relationships between Hungarian Immigrants and Their Homeland Éva V Huseby-Darvas No access
6 Homecoming to the Diaspora: Nation and State in Visits of Israelis to Morocco André Levy No access
7 From the Centers to the Periphery: "Repatriation" to an Armenian Homeland in the Twentieth Century Susan Pattie No access
8 When Home Is Not the Homeland: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return Migration Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsu No access
9 Promised Land, Imagined Homelands: Ethiopian Jews' Immigration to Israel Lisa Anteby-Yemini No access
10 Transatlantic Dreaming: Slavery, Tourism, and Diasporic Encounters BayoHo!sey No access
11 Leaving Babylon to Come Home to Israel: Closing the Circle of the Black Diaspora Fran Markowitz No access
12 While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba: Adio Kerida and the Goodbye That Isn't a Farewell Ruth Behar No access
