Struggles for home
Subtitle: violence, hope and the movement of people
By: edited by Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving.
Contributors: Jansen, Stef.; Löfving, Staffan.
Series: Dislocations -- 3
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781845455231
Subjects: Assimilation (Sociology); Home -- Psychological aspects; Identity (Psychology); Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects; War -- Social aspects -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: towards an anthropology of violence, hope and the movement of people / Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving, Staffan; title: Returning to Palestine: confinement and displacement under Israeli occupation / Tobias Kelly; title: Troubled locations: return, the life course and transformations of home in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Stef Jansen; title: The loss of home: from passion to pragmatism in Cyprus / Peter Loizos; title: The social significance of crossing state borders: home, mobility and life paths in the Angolan-Zambian borderland / Michael Barrett; title: Strategies of visibility and invisibility: Rumanians and Moroccans in El Ejido, Spain / Swanie Potot; title: A new morning?: reoccupying home in the aftermath of violence in Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama; title: Liberal emplacement: violence, home and the transforming space of popular protest in Central America / Staffan Löfving, Staffan; title: Postscript: home, fragility and irregulation: reflections on ethnographies of im/mobility / Finn Stepputat; title: Notes on contributors; title: Index.