Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home'

Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home'
ISBN-10
9053568786
ISBN-13
9789053568781
Category
Social Science
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Author
Anastasia Christou

Description

Annotation. Christou 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, Christou 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. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053568781. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

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