Links to the Diasporic Homeland
Second Generation and Ancestral 'Return' Mobilities
By Anastasia Christou, Peggy Levitt, Russell King | Publisher: Taylor and Francis
About the book
This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond. It presents cutting-edge empirical research framed within the mobilities, transnational and return migration/diaspora paradigms on a trans/local and global scale. The book is unique in presenting not only a variety of return movements, including short-term visits and longer-term return migrations, but also circulatory movements within transnational social fields while engaging with notions of ‘home’, belonging, identity and generation. The individual contributions range widely over different ethnic, national, regional and global settings, including Europe, North America, the Caribbean, the Gulf and Africa. The result is a remapping of the conceptualisation of ‘diaspora’ and of the role of successive generations in the diasporic experience, as well as a nuancing of the concepts of return migration and transnationalism by their extension to the second and subsequent generations of ‘immigrants’.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Mobilities.
Editions of Links to the Diasporic Homeland
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This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond. It presents cutting-edge empirical research framed within the mobilities, transnational and return migration/diaspora paradigms on a trans/local and global scale. The book is unique in presenting not only a variety of return movements, including short-term visits and longer-term return migrations, but also circulatory movements within transnational social fields while engaging with notions of ‘home’, belonging, identity and generation. The individual contributions range widely over different ethnic, national, regional and global settings, including Europe, North America, the Caribbean, the Gulf and Africa. The result is a remapping of the conceptualisation of ‘diaspora’ and of the role of successive generations in the diasporic experience, as well as a nuancing of the concepts of return migration and transnationalism by their extension to the second and subsequent generations of ‘immigrants’.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Mobilities.
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What is Links to the Diasporic Homeland about?
This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond. It presents cutting-edge empirical research framed within the mobilities, transnational and return migration/diaspora paradigms on a trans/local and global scale. The book is unique in presenting not only a variety of return movements, including short-term visits and longer-term return migrations, but also circulatory movements within transnational social fields while engaging with notions of ‘home’, belonging, identity and generation. The individual contributions range widely over different ethnic, national, regional and global settings, including Europe, North America, the Caribbean, the Gulf and Africa. The result is a remapping of the conceptualisation of ‘diaspora’ and of the role of successive generations in the diasporic experience, as well as a nuancing of the concepts of return migration and transnationalism by their extension to the second and subsequent generations of ‘immigrants’.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Mobilities.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Links to the Diasporic Homeland?
History and Archaeology > History > History: specific events and topics > Colonialism and imperialism
Where can I read a sample of Links to the Diasporic Homeland?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781317755449
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Links to the Diasporic Homeland?
Anastasia Christou, Peggy Levitt, Russell King
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Links to the Diasporic Homeland is available as ebook(ISBN 9781317755449) and pdf(ISBN 9781317755456)