|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology
|
Buy Now
Coming Home? - Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind (Paperback, New)
Loot Price: R823
Discovery Miles 8 230
|
|
|
Coming Home? - Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind (Paperback, New)
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
Few things weigh on the human spirit more heavily than a sense of
place; the lands we live in and return to have a profound ability
to shape our notions of home and homeland, not to mention our own
identities. The pull of the familiar and the desire to begin anew
are conflicting impulses for the nearly 180 million people who live
outside their countries of origin, often with the expectation of
returning home. Of 30 million people who immigrated to the United
States alone between 1900 and 1980, 10 million are believed to have
returned to their homelands. While migration flows occur in both
directions, surprisingly few studies of transnationalism, global
migration, or diaspora address return experiences. Undertaking a
comparative analysis of how coming home affects individuals and
their communities in a myriad cultural and geographic settings, the
contributors to this volume seek to understand the unique return
migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as
they confront the social pressures and a sense of displacement that
accompany their journeys. The returns depicted in Coming Home?
range from temporary visits to permanent repatriation, from
voluntary to coerced movements, and from those occurring after a
few years of exile to those after several decades away. The
geographic sites include the Balkans, Barbados, China, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Germany, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Rwanda, and Vietnam.
Several studies portray the experiences of returning refugees who
earlier fled war and violence, while others focus on economic or
labor migrants. As the essays show, connections between permanent
returnees and home communities are contentious and complex. On the
one hand, issues of land title, property rights, political
orientation, and religious and cultural beliefs and practices
create grounds for clashes between returnees and their home
communities, but on the other, returnees bring with them a unique
ability to transform local practices and provide new resources.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(4)
(1)
