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Narratives of place, culture and identity: second-generation Greek-Americans return 'home'
[phd thesis]
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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
migration; ethnicity; cultural identity; diaspora; native country; emigration; remigration; integration; assimilation; country of origin; identification; second generation; Greece
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Method
empirical; qualitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Amsterdam Univ. Press
City
Amsterdam
Page/Pages
264 p.
Series
IMISCoe Dissertations
ISBN
978-90-5356-878-1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works