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Exile and return among the East Timorese / Amanda Wise.
LIBRA HV640.5.E19 W57 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wise, Amanda.
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political refugees--Timor-Leste.
- Political refugees.
- Exiles.
- Social conditions.
- Timor-Leste.
- Political refugees--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions.
- Exiles--Timor-Leste.
- Exiles--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions.
- Timorese--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).
- Timorese.
- Australia.
- Return migration--Timor-Leste.
- Return migration.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Introduction: "We can't hang Xanana there!": On the Politics of Representing Community 1
- 1 East Timor: A History of the Present 18
- 2 Leaving the Crocodile: The East Timorese Community in Sydney 41
- 3 Nation, Transnation, Diaspora: Locating East Timorese Long Distance Nationalism 61
- 4 Embodying Exile: Embodied Memory and the Role of Trauma, Affect, Politics, and Religion in the Formation of Identities in Exile 89
- 5 Locating East Timoreseness in Australia: Layers of Hybridity, Anchored and Enmeshed 123
- 6 From Exile to Diaspora? On Identity, Belonging, and the (Im) Possibility of Return Home 163
- 7 Conclusion: Independence Day: Looking to the Future 201
- Afterword: January 2005 206.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812239091
- OCLC:
- 61724470
- Publisher Number:
- 9780812239096
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