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Author Markowitz, Fran.

Title Homecomings : Unsettling Paths of Return.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Program in migration and refugee studies
Program in migration and refugee studies.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part I Introduction; 1 Homecomings to the Future: From Diasporic Mythographies to Social Projects of Return Anders H. Stefansson; 2 The Home(s) of Homecomings Fran Markowitz; Part II Homecomings of Immigrants and Refugees; 3 Tigrayan Returnees' Notions of Home: Five Variations on a Theme Laura Hammond; 4 Sarajevo Suffering: Homecoming and the Hierarchy of Homeland Hardship Anders H. Stefansson; 5 Extra Hungariam Non Est Vita? The Relationships between Hungarian Immigrants and Their Homeland Éva V Huseby-Darvas.
Part III Blurried Homes, Blurred Diaspora-Homeland Boundaries6 Homecoming to the Diaspora: Nation and State in Visits of Israelis to Morocco André Levy; 7 From the Centers to the Periphery: ""Repatriation"" to an Armenian Homeland in the Twentieth Century Susan Pattie; 8 When Home Is Not the Homeland: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return Migration Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsu; 9 Promised Land, Imagined Homelands: Ethiopian Jews' Immigration to Israel Lisa Anteby-Yemini; Part IV Contentious Homecomings; 10 Transatlantic Dreaming: Slavery, Tourism, and Diasporic Encounters BayoHo!sey.
11 Leaving Babylon to Come Home to Israel: Closing the Circle of the Black Diaspora Fran Markowitz12 While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba: Adio Kerida and the Goodbye That Isn't a Farewell Ruth Behar; Index; About the Contributors.
Summary 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 key oppositions and terminologies that have vexed migration studies for decades.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Return migration.
Return migration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Stefansson, Anders H.
Other Form: Print version: Homecomings. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2004 (DLC) 2004019918 (OCoLC)56355846
ISBN 9780739155981 (electronic book)
0739155989 (electronic book)
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