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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Fran Markowitz and Anders H. Stefansson - Contributions by Lisa Anteby-Yemini; Ruth Behar; Laura Hammond; Bayo Holsey; Éva V. Huseby-Darvas; André Levy; Susan Pattie and Takeyuki Tsuda Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Part I: Homecomings to the Future: From Diasporic Mythographies to Social Projects of Return 2 The Home(s) of Homecomings 3 Part II: Homecomings of Immigrants and Refugees 4 Tigrayan Returnees' Notions of Home: Five Variations on a Theme 5 Sarajevo Suffering: Homecoming and the Hierarchy of Homeland Hardship 6 Extra Hungariam non est vita? The Relationships between Hungarian Immigrants and their Homeland 7 Part III: Blurried Homes, Blurred Diaspora-Homeland Boundaries 8 Homecoming to the Diaspora: Nation and State in Visits of Israelis to Morocco 9 From the Centers to the Periphery: "Repatriation" to an Armenian Homeland in the Twentieth Century 10 When Home Is Not the Homeland: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return Migration 11 Promised Land, Imagined Homelands: Ethiopian Jews' Immigration to Israel 12 Part IV: Contentious Homecomings 13 Transatlantic Dreaming: Slavery, Tourism, and Diasporic Encounters 14 Leaving Babylon to Come Home to Israel: Closing the Circle of the Black Diaspora 15 While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba: Adio Kerida and the Goodbye that Isn't a Farewell...
