Title: Exile and return among the East Timorese /
Authors: Wise, Amanda.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Return migration Indonesia Timor Timur.; Exiles Indonesia Timor Timur.; Political refugees Indonesia Timor Timur.; Political refugees Australia Sydney (N.S.W.) Social conditions.; Exiles Australia Sydney (N.S.W.) Social conditions.; Timorese Australia Sydney (N.S.W.); Return migration Timor-Leste.; Exiles Timor-Leste.; Political refugees Timor-Leste.
Abstract: "East Timor was the world's newest nation when it finally gained its independence in 2002, following half a millennium of Portuguese rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation. That occupation produced a refugee diaspora spread between Portugal and Australia that has been integral in advancing East Timor's cause abroad. Because East Timorese in the diaspora identified strongly as exiles and invested so much in pursuing East Timor's independence, the homeland's liberation has complicated the very basis on which many have "imagined" themselves since fleeing to Australia."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: East Timor: A History of the Present -- Leaving the Crocodile: The East Timorese Community in Sydney -- Nation, Transnation, Diaspora: Locating East Timorese Long Distance Nationalism -- Embodying Exile: Embodied Memory and the Role of Trauma, Affect, Politics, and Religion in the Formation of Identities in Exile -- Locating East Timoreseness in Australia: Layers of Hybridity, Anchored and Enmeshed -- From Exile to Diaspora? On Identity, Belonging, and the (Im)Possibility of Return Home -- Conclusion: Independence Day: Looking to the Future.