1st Edition
Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home'
By Anastasia Christou
Copyright 2007
264 Pages
by
Routledge
Christou explores the phenomenon of ‘return migration’ in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ figure prominently in the return migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well as adjustment... Read more
1 Introduction, 2 Situating and theorising national and ethnic expressions of place, vulture and identity, 3 The Greek-American experience: emigration, settlement, return and identity, 4 Ideologies of home and geographies of place, 5 Ideologies of return and geographies of culture, 6 Ideologies of self and geographies of identity, 7 Conclusions, Notes, Appendix, Bibliography
Biography
Anastasia Christou is a Lecturer in Cultural Geographies and Culture in Time and Space at the Department of Geography, University of Sussex, UK. She was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of History, International and Social Studies at the University of Aalborg and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark.
