Homecomings

Unsettling Paths of Return
Herausgeber: Markowitz, Fran; Stefansson, Anders H.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 key oppositions and terminologies that have vexed migration studies for decades.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780739109526
• ISBN-10: 0739109529
• Artikelnr.: 23249875

Autorenporträt

Edited by Fran Markowitz and Anders H. Stefansson - Contributions by Lisa Anteby-Yemini; Ruth Behar; Laura Hammond; Bayo Holsey; Éva V. Huseby-Darvas; André Levy; Susan Pattie and Takeyuki Tsuda

Inhaltsangabe

1 Part I: Homecomings to the Future: From Diasporic Mythographies to Social
Projects of Return 2 The Home(s) of Homecomings 3 Part II: Homecomings of
Immigrants and Refugees 4 Tigrayan Returnees' Notions of Home: Five
Variations on a Theme 5 Sarajevo Suffering: Homecoming and the Hierarchy of
Homeland Hardship 6 Extra Hungariam non est vita? The Relationships between
Hungarian Immigrants and their Homeland 7 Part III: Blurried Homes, Blurred
Diaspora-Homeland Boundaries 8 Homecoming to the Diaspora: Nation and State
in Visits of Israelis to Morocco 9 From the Centers to the Periphery:
"Repatriation" to an Armenian Homeland in the Twentieth Century 10 When
Home Is Not the Homeland: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return
Migration 11 Promised Land, Imagined Homelands: Ethiopian Jews' Immigration
to Israel 12 Part IV: Contentious Homecomings 13 Transatlantic Dreaming:
Slavery, Tourism, and Diasporic Encounters 14 Leaving Babylon to Come Home
to Israel: Closing the Circle of the Black Diaspora 15 While Waiting for
the Ferry to Cuba: Adio Kerida and the Goodbye that Isn't a Farewell