Homecomings Unsettling Paths of Return

by Markowitz, Fran; Stefansson, Anders H.; Anteby-Yemini, Lisa; Behar, Ruth; Hammond, Laura; Holsey, Bayo; Huseby-Darvas, Éva V.; Levy, André; Pattie, Susan; Tsuda, Takeyuki

• ISBN13: 9780739108307
• ISBN10: 0739108301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-09
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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.

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction	1	(34)
Homecomings to the Future: From Diasporic Mythographies to Social Projects of Return	2	(19)
Anders H. Stefansson
The Home(s) of Homecomings	21	(14)
Fran Markowitz
Part II Homecomings of Immigrants and Refugees	35	(56)
Tigrayan Returnees' Notions of Home: Five Variations on a Theme	36	(18)
Laura Hammond
Sarajevo Suffering: Homecoming and the Hierarchy of Homeland Hardship	54	(22)
Anders H. Stefansson
Extra Hungariam Non Est Vita? The Relationships between Hungarian Immigrants and Their Homeland	76	(15)
Eva V. Huseby-Darvas
Part III Blurried Homes, Blurred Diaspora-Homeland Boundaries	91	(74)
Homecoming to the Diaspora: Nation and State in Visits of Israelis to Morocco	92	(17)
Andre Levy
From the Centers to the Periphery: ``Repatriation'' to an Armenian Homeland in the Twentieth Century	109	(16)
Susan Pattie
When Home Is Not the Homeland: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return Migration	125	(21)
Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
Promised Land, Imagined Homelands: Ethiopian Jews' Immigration to Israel	146	(19)
Lisa Anteby-Yemini
Part IV Contentious Homecomings	165	(46)
Transatlantic Dreaming: Slavery, Tourism, and Diasporic Encounters	166	(17)
Bayo Holsey
Leaving Babylon to Come Home to Israel: Closing the Circle of the Black Diaspora	183	(16)
Fran Markowitz
While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba: Adio Kerida and the Goodbye That Isn't a Farewell	199	(12)
Ruth Behar
Index	211	(4)
About the Contributors	215