You’re at Home – You’re Not Home. Migrant Experience of Returning
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چکیده
While focusing on the speci c experience of migration and return, the author deals in her work with narrative and practical ways of establishing, af rming and even denying belonging to a particular physical space. As a supporting analytical construct she chooses the term “home” which, although adjacent in meaning, surpasses the more commonplace concepts implied by the term identity. Thinking about home in light of contemporary approaches to return migrations which emphasize plurality, complexity and ambivalence rather than uniformity of returnees’ experiences, the author relies on the ethnography of the particular as almost the only acceptable way of grasping the “reality” of anthropological subjects (determined by the meanings that they themselves attach to their experiences of migration, return and home). In the context of such an approach, home emerges as a multilayered space of commonality de ned by place, time, rights, obligations as well as other different critera.
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