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Counter-Diaspora

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Description for Counter-Diaspora Hardcover. Focusing on the return of the diasporic second generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Counter-Diaspora examines migration experiences of Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans growing up in the Greek diasporic setting, motivations for the counter-diasporic return, and evolving notions of the "homeland." Series: Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBJD; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
This book focuses on the return of the diasporic Greek second generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and their evolving, often ambivalent, senses of belonging and conceptualizations of home. Drawing from a large-scale research project employing a multi-sited and multi-method comparative approach, Counter-Diaspora is a narrative ethnographic account of the lives and identities of second-generation Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans. Through an interdisciplinary gender and generational lens, the study examines lived migration experiences at three diasporic moments: growing up within the Greek diasporic setting in the United States and Germany; motivations for the counter-diasporic return; and experiences in the homeland of Greece. Research documents and analyzes a range of feelings and experiences associated with this counter-diasporic return to the ancestral homeland. Images and imaginations of the homeland are discussed and deconstructed, along with notions of Greekness mediated through diasporic encounters. Using extensive extracts from interviews, the authors explore the roles of, among other things, family solidarity, kinship, food, language, and religion, as well as the impact of home-coming visits on the decision to return to the ancestral homeland. The book also contributes to a reconceptualization of diaspora and a problematization of the notion of second generation.

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings
Condition
New
Weight
580g
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674420069
SKU
V9780674420069
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About Anastasia Christou
Anastasia Christou is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Law, Middlesex University, London. Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex.

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