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This collection focuses fresh attention on the relationships
between "homeland" and "diaspora" communities in today's world.
Based on in-depth anthropological studies by leading scholars in
the field, the book highlights the changing character of
homeland-diaspora ties. Homelands and Diasporas offers new
understandings of the issues that these communities face and
explores the roots of their fascinating, yet sometimes paradoxical,
interactions. The book provides a keen look at how "homeland" and
"diaspora" appear in the lives of both Israeli Jews and Israeli
Palestinians and also explores how these issues influence
Pakistanis who make their home in England, Armenians in Cyprus and
England, Cambodians in France, and African-Americans in Israel. The
critical views advanced in this collection should lead to a
reorientation in diaspora studies and to a better understanding of
the often contradictory changes in the relationships between people
whose lives are led both "at home and away."
This collection focuses fresh attention on the relationships
between "homeland" and "diaspora" communities in today's world.
Based on in-depth anthropological studies by leading scholars in
the field, the book highlights the changing character of
homeland-diaspora ties. Homelands and Diasporas offers new
understandings of the issues that these communities face and
explores the roots of their fascinating, yet sometimes paradoxical,
interactions. The book provides a keen look at how "homeland" and
"diaspora" appear in the lives of both Israeli Jews and Israeli
Palestinians and also explores how these issues influence
Pakistanis who make their home in England, Armenians in Cyprus and
England, Cambodians in France, and African-Americans in Israel. The
critical views advanced in this collection should lead to a
reorientation in diaspora studies and to a better understanding of
the often contradictory changes in the relationships between people
whose lives are led both "at home and away."
In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andre Levy returns to his
birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling
study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there.
Ranging over a century of history-from the Jewish Enlightenment and
the impending colonialism of the late nineteenth century to today's
modern Arab state-Levy paints a rich portrait of two communities
pressed together, of the tremendous mobility that has characterized
the past century, and of the paradoxes that complicate the cultural
identities of the present. Levy visits a host of sites and
historical figures to assemble a compelling history of social
change, while seamlessly interweaving his study with personal
accounts of his returns to his homeland. Central to this story is
the massive migration of Jews out of Morocco. Levy traces the
institutional and social changes such migrations cause for those
who choose to stay, introducing the concept of "contraction" to
depict the way Jews deal with the ramifications of their
demographic dwindling. Turning his attention outward from Morocco,
he goes on to explore the greater complexities of the Jewish
diaspora and the essential paradox at the heart of his
adventure-leaving Israel to return home.
Andre Levy provides a "picture of Chinese literature of the
past" that brilliantly illustrates the four great literary genres
of China: the classics, prose, poetry, and the literature of
entertainment. His discussion of approximately 120 vivid
translations combines personal insights with innovative historical
accounts in a genre-based approach that moves beyond the typical
chronology of dynasties. Renowned scholar William H. Nienhauser,
Jr., translated Levy s work from the French and returned to the
original Chinese for the texts. This informative, engaging, and
eminently readable introduction to the three millennia of
traditional Chinese literature is highly recommended for students
and general readers."
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.
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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