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Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora
have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose
chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves
were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to
commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence
that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians
suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history
expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic?
"Routes of Remembrance" tackles these questions by analyzing the
slave trade's absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian
family and community histories, its troubled presentation in the
country's classrooms and nationalist narratives, and its
elaboration by the transnational tourism industry. Bayo Holsey
discovers that in the past, African involvement in the slave trade
was used by Europeans to denigrate local residents, and this stigma
continues to shape the way Ghanaians imagine their historical past.
Today, however, due to international attention and the curiosity of
young Ghanaians, the slave trade has at last entered the public
sphere, transforming it from a stigmatizing history to one that
holds the potential to contest global inequalities.
Holsey's study will be crucial to anyone involved in the global
debate over how the slave trade endures in history and in memory.
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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