Georges woke up laughing : long-distance nationalism and the search for home / Nina Glick Schiller & Georges Eugene Fouron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schiller, Nina Glick.

Contributor:

Fouron, Georges Eugene.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

American Encounters/Global Interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fouron, Georges Eugene.

Haitian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Haitian Americans.

Haitian Americans--Social conditions.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Transnationalism.

Haitians--Interviews.

Haitians.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Haiti--Emigration and immigration.

Haiti.

United States--Relations--Haiti.

Haiti--Relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of how migrants adapt to their new country while still maintaining ties to the old with an emphasis on Haitian migrants to the US.

Contents:

1 "At First IWas Laughing"

2 Long-Distance Nationalism Defined

3 Delivering the Commission: The Return of the Native

4 "Without Them, I Would Not Be Here": Transnational Kinship

5 "The Blood Remains Haitian": Race, Nation, and Belonging in the Transmigrant Experience

6 "She Tried to Reclaim Me": Gendered Long-Distance Nationalism

7 The Generation of Identity: The Long-Distance Nationalism of the Second Generation

8 "The Responsible State": Dialogues of a Transborder Citizenry

9 The Apparent State: Sovereignty and the State of U.S.-Haitian Relations

10 Long-Distance Nationalism as a Debate: Shared Symbols and Disparate Messages

11 The Other Side of the Two-Way Street: Long-Distance Nationalism as a Subaltern Agenda.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-313) and index.

ISBN:

9786612920059

9781282920057

1282920057

9780822383239

0822383233

OCLC:

841913432