1st Edition
Home Across Borders An Ethnography of Sri Lankan Immigrants in Australia
List of Figures viii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi PART I Thoughts and Methods of home 1 1 Introduction: Thoughts on ‘Home’ 3 2 Methods of ‘Home’ 21 PART II Perceptions of home 37 3 Home Remembered and Nostalgia: Becoming through Time and Space 39 4 Home Unsettled and Disrupted 75 5 Forging Relationships: Post-migration, Social Networks, Settlement Experiences and Home 96 PART III Cultivating Home 123 6 Building Home: Transformation of Space into Place 125 7 Transnationalised Religion and the Construction of Home 163 8 Conclusion 188 Index 197
Biography
Jagath Bandara Pathirage completed his first degree in sociology at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He did his MSc in social anthropologyn at the University of Edinburgh, UK and PhD at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Colombo and Honarary Research Felow to the Charles Darwin University in Australia.
