Struggles for home

Struggles for home violence, hope and the movement of people / [electronic resource] : edited by Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2009. - vi, 192 p. ; 25 cm. - Dislocations ; v. 3 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: towards an anthropology of violence, hope and the movement of people / Returning to Palestine: confinement and displacement under Israeli occupation / Troubled locations: return, the life course and transformations of home in Bosnia-Herzegovina / The loss of home: from passion to pragmatism in Cyprus / The social significance of crossing state borders: home, mobility and life paths in the Angolan-Zambian borderland / Strategies of visibility and invisibility: Rumanians and Moroccans in El Ejido, Spain / A new morning? reoccupying home in the aftermath of violence in Sri Lanka / Liberal emplacement: violence, home and the transforming space of popular protest in Central America / Postscript: home, fragility and irregulation: reflections on ethnographies of im/mobility / Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving -- Tobias Kelly -- Stef Jansen -- Peter Loizos -- Michael Barrett -- Swanie Potot -- Sharika Thiranagama -- Staffan Löfving -- Finn Stepputat.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2010.
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Assimilation (Sociology)
Home--Psychological aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.
War and society--Case studies.


Electronic books.

JV6342 / .S78 2009eb

304.8

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