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Homecomings - Unsettling Paths of Return (Hardcover, New)
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Homecomings - Unsettling Paths of Return (Hardcover, New)
Series: Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
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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.
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