Struggles for home : violence, hope and the movement of people / edited by Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jansen, Stef.

Löfving, Staffan.

Series:

Dislocations ; v. 3.

Dislocations ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assimilation (Sociology).

Home--Psychological aspects.

Home.

Identity (Psychology).

Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

War and society--Case studies.

War and society.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 192 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction: towards an anthropology of violence, hope and the movement of people / Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving

Returning to Palestine: confinement and displacement under Israeli occupation / Tobias Kelly

Troubled locations: return, the life course and transformations of home in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Stef Jansen

The loss of home: from passion to pragmatism in Cyprus / Peter Loizos

The social significance of crossing state borders: home, mobility and life paths in the Angolan-Zambian borderland / Michael Barrett

Strategies of visibility and invisibility: Rumanians and Moroccans in El Ejido, Spain / Swanie Potot

A new morning? reoccupying home in the aftermath of violence in Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama

Liberal emplacement: violence, home and the transforming space of popular protest in Central America / Staffan Löfving

Postscript: home, fragility and irregulation: reflections on ethnographies of im/mobility / Finn Stepputat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845455231

1845455231

OCLC:

241304546