Making a Homeland - Roots and Routes of Transnational Armenian Engagement

Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain their attachment to the ancestral homeland? To what extent do emotional ties bind second and later generations of migrants to that place? Tsypylma Darieva examines various actors, channels and sites of transnational Armenian engagement that generate new pathways of diasporic 'roots' mobility. Drawing on long-term ethnographic observations in Armenia and in the USA, she examines transnational flows of people, money and ideas to show the social and political significance that roots mobility acquires when the mythical 'homeland' becomes a real place.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tsypylma Darieva (PD Dr.) is a senior researcher at the Centre for East European and international Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, where she leads the research cluster 'Migration and Diversity'. Trained as social anthropologist she is teaching at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her research is focused on the anthropology of migration, diaspora and transnationalism, post-socialist urbanity, religious diversity and activism in Eastern Europe and Southern Eurasia.

Zusammenfassung

Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain their attachment to the ancestral homeland? To what extent do emotional ties bind second and later generations of migrants to that place? Tsypylma Darieva examines various actors, channels and sites of transnational Armenian engagement that generate new pathways of diasporic ›roots‹ mobility. Drawing on long-term ethnographic observations in Armenia and in the USA, she examines transnational flows of people, money and ideas to show the social and political significance that roots mobility acquires when the mythical ›homeland‹ becomes a real place.

Zusatztext

»The book provides a wealth of information on the engagement of the Armenian diaspora settled in North America, and examines types of diaspora-homeland relations that are rarely put under the  spotlight.«

Bericht

»The book provides a wealth of information on the engagement of the Armenian diaspora settled in North America, and examines types of diaspora-homeland relations that are rarely put under the spotlight.«

Élise Féron, Anthropos, 119 (2024) 20250327

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tsypylma Darieva
• Verlag: Transcript
• Sprache: Englisch, Deutsch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9783837662542
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6254-2
• Seiten: 240
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 16 mm x 227 mm
• Gewicht: 366 g
• Illustration: 1 SW-Abb., 24 Farbabb.
• Serie: Global Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geisteswissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Migration, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Ethnic Studies, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Media Studies, Memory Culture, Sociology, Globalization, Cultural Studies, Eastern Europe, European History, Social Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Homeland, Social interaction, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Diaspora, Armenia, Social Mobility, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political activism, Religion: general, Communities, Politics & government, Human Geography, Urban communities, Development Studies, Age groups: adolescents, Sociology and anthropology, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Transnational Engagement, Philosophy and psychology, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Social processes, International migration and colonization, Groups of people, Political science (Politics and government), Philosophy and theory of religion, Civil and political rights, Russia and neighboring east European countries