Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return ‘Home’ 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 and alienation of bodies and selves.

Furthermore, the book considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural, political) between the place of origin and the place of destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity. The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland.

This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created five IMISCOE book series.

The IMISCOE-AUP Book Series are part of IMISCOE which is an EU funded Network of Excellence in the Sixth Framework Programme.

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Anastasia Christou is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the 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.

research

Urban Policy

Social inclusion & integration