Remaking Home : : Reconstructing Life, Place and Identity in Rome and Amsterdam / / Maja Korac.
Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the ‘integration’ and ‘acculturation’ of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belonging;...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Forced Migration ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Reconstructing Life, Place and Identity
- 1 The Question of ‘Home’: Place-making and Emplacement
- 2 Experiences of Displacement: Force, Choice and the Creation of Solutions
- 3 Regaining Control Over Life: Dependency, Self-sufficiency and Agency
- 4 Negotiating Continuity and Change: The Process of Recontructing Life
- 5 Transnational Lives of Refugees, Questions of Citizenship, Belonging and Return
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index