Homecomings - Unsettling Paths of Return (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
Release date:	November 2004
First published:	November 2004
Editors:	Fran Markowitz • Anders H. Stefansson
Contributors:	Lisa Anteby-Yemini • Ruth Behar • Laura Hammond • Bayo Holsey • Eva V. Huseby-Darvas • Andre Levy • Susan Pattie • Takeyuki Tsuda
Dimensions:	228 x 161 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-0952-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
LSN:	0-7391-0952-9
Barcode:	9780739109526

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