Exile and Return Among the East Timorese / Amanda Wise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wise, Amanda, author.

Series:

Contemporary ethnography.

Contemporary Ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Return migration--Timor-Leste.

Return migration.

Timorese--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Timorese.

Exiles--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions.

Exiles.

Exiles--Timor-Leste.

Political refugees--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions.

Political refugees.

Political refugees--Timor-Leste.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

East Timor, the world's newest nation, finally gained its independence in 2002, following half a millennium of Portuguese rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation. That occupation produced a refugee diaspora spread between Portugal and Australia that has been integral in advancing East Timor's cause abroad. Because East Timorese in the diaspora identified strongly as exiles and invested so much in pursuing East Timor's independence, the homeland's liberation has complicated the very basis on which many have "imagined" themselves since fleeing to Australia.Wise interrogates the space after exile for members of the East Timorese diaspora in Australia, in dialogue with key debates on diasporic identities within cultural studies, contemporary anthropology, and cultural geography. Drawing on innovative ethnographic research, explores questions of shifting identity and home, trauma and embodiment, belonging and return among the East Timorese abroad at this critical juncture in their lives. The book asks what forms of cultural identity emerge among politically active refugee diasporas, what happens to such groups when the dream of homeland is fulfilled, and how they renegotiate a sense of home after exile.The lived experience of Timorese in Australia and former refugees who have returned to East Timor is brought to life through their eloquent and often moving firsthand narratives, which the author has used liberally throughout the book, vividly presenting them alongside images and analysis of their role in the political struggle.Providing unique insights into cultural identities in the transition from exile to diaspora in a post-refugee group, is essential reading for anyone interested in questions of home and identity among diasporic, transnational, and refugee communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: "We can't hang Xanana there!" On the Politics of Representing Community

Chapter 1 East Timor: A History of the Present

Chapter 2 Leaving the Crocodile: The East Timorese Community in Sydney

Chapter 3 Nation, Transnation, Diaspora: Locating East Timorese Long Distance Nationalism

Chapter 4 Embodying Exile: Embodied Memory and the Role of Trauma, Affect, Politics, and Religion in the Formation of Identities in Exile

Chapter 5 Locating East Timoreseness in Australia: Layers of Hybridity, Anchored and Enmeshed

Chapter 6 From Exile to Diaspora? On Identity, Belonging, and the (Im)Possibility of Return Home

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Independence Day: Looking to the Future

Afterword: January 2005

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613212146

9781283212144

1283212145

9780812203929

0812203925

OCLC:

759158185