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Making a Homeland: Roots and Routes of Transnational Armenian Engagement
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Abstract 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 Darie... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
diaspora; Armenia; United States of America; migration; globalization; culture of remembrance; cultural anthropology; Eastern Europe; sociology
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Free Keywords
Transnational Engagement; Homeland
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
238 p.
Series
Global Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839462546
ISSN
2703-0504
ISBN
978-3-8394-6254-6
Status
Published Version; reviewed