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Narratives of place, culture and identity: second-generation Greek-Americans return 'home'
[Dissertation]
Abstract The author explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of 'home' and 'belonging' figure promi... mehr
The author explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of 'home' and 'belonging' figure prominently in the return migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well as adjustment and alienation of bodies and selves. Furthermore, the author considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural, political) between the place of origin and the place of destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity. The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Migration; Ethnizität; kulturelle Identität; Diaspora; Heimat; Auswanderung; Rückwanderung; Integration; Assimilation; Herkunftsland; Identifikation; zweite Generation; Griechenland
Klassifikation
Migration
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Methode
empirisch; empirisch-qualitativ
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2006
Verlag
Amsterdam Univ. Press
Erscheinungsort
Amsterdam
Seitenangabe
264 S.
Schriftenreihe
IMISCoe Dissertations
ISBN
978-90-5356-878-1
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung