Beyond Home and Return: Negotiating Religious Identity across Time and Space through the Prism of the American Experience

Levitt, Peggy; Lucken, Kristen; Barnett, Melissa D.

doi:10.1080/17450101.2011.603942

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Many difficulties of being part of a minority involve matters of ‘identity uncertainty’ (Brettell ; Levitt et al . ). Identity development is most critical during adolescence because this phase of one's life course involves entering wider society (Erikson ).…”

Section: Long‐term Reasons For Return Migration: Being In the Minoritymentioning

confidence: 97%

Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

2015

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Through in‐depth interviews and participant observation with 40 1.5 generation Korean New Zealander returnees, we explore life trajectories and identify both short‐ and long‐term reasons for return. Short‐term reasons for return include moving home when entering adulthood in order to begin a career, gaining new experiences and finding a future spouse. Longer term influences include the difficulties of living as minority‐status immigrants in the host society, transnational connections and a longing for a sense of ‘home’. Our consideration of longer term migration strategies sheds light upon the often forgotten difficulties and complexities that can underlie an individual's return.

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Section: Long‐term Reasons For Return Migration: Being In the Minoritymentioning

confidence: 97%

Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

2015

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“…Simultaneously though, wherever it is located, home is often represented as offering complete familiarity and comfort, a place that we either leave and long for, or we move towards, for ontological security. This assumption has been usefully attacked (Brah 1996;Ahmed 2000;Fortier 2003;Mallett 2004;Wiles 2008;King and Christou 2011;Levitt et al 2011;Herbert 2012), as it is clear that feelings of comfort and estrangement can be experienced concurrently within the same location, or in relation to the same location and events through different imaginings and memories. The diasporic pursuit of home entails human labour and can involve 'physically or symbolically (re)constituting places which provide some kind of ontological security..."home"…”

Section: Conceptualising Diaspora and Locating Home Within Mobilitymentioning

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‘Home is Never Fully Achieved … Even When We Are In it’: Migration, Belonging and Social Exclusion within Punjabi Transnational Mobility

Taylor

2013

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Drawing upon transnational research in the UK and India, primarily over 150 semistructured interviews in Newcastle, UK and Doaba, Punjab, as well as the 'mobilities turn' within contemporary social science, this paper examines the pursuit of 'home' within a diasporic British Indian Punjabi community. It is argued that this transnational pursuit of home is significantly shaped by the dynamic social context of South Asia, in particular processes of social inclusion and exclusion therein. Thus, returning Punjabi migrant attempts to distinguish themselves from the resident population through conspicuous consumption, and simultaneous attempts from Punjabi residents to exclude Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) from 'real' Indian status, lead to a continual reprocessing of home across different sites of mobility, as well as demonstrating the 'never fully achieved' nature of home.

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“…Without resolving this problem, several scholars have provided important insights on how this disparity between expectation and outcome takes shape pre-and post-return (Schein 1998;Žmegač 2005;Cook-Martín and Viladrich 2009;Tsuda 2009;Levitt, Lucken, and Barnett 2011). These studies often investigate the degree to which identity is constructed (or "forged") in the diaspora and the extent to which this constructed social, political, or even religious identity inhibits settlement of and integration into the homeland.…”

Section: Theoretical Approaches To Ancestral Return Migrationmentioning

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Connection without Engagement: Paradoxes of North American Armenian Return Migration

Fittante

2017

Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies

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Return migration from the diaspora to the ancestral homeland has emerged as an important sub-field within migration studies. The scholarship has introduced new ways of understanding migratory trajectories by exploring the roles of migrants' ethnicity and imagination and has identified novel ways of unpacking migratory patterns whose motivations are not centered on economic mobility. But the scholarship has begged the question by documenting the ethnic and sentimental motivations that make migration incomprehensible and the unexpected difficulties returnees encounter once they have settled in their perceived homelands. The current research project investigates the experiences of North American Armenians who have "returned" to Armenia. It seeks to extend the existing theoretical framework by demonstrating how ancestral returnees sustain a powerful feeling of connection to a country while simultaneously harboring a sense of disengagement from local practices.

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Beyond Home and Return: Negotiating Religious Identity across Time and Space through the Prism of the American Experience

Cited by 25 publications

References 12 publications

Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

‘Home is Never Fully Achieved … Even When We Are In it’: Migration, Belonging and Social Exclusion within Punjabi Transnational Mobility

Connection without Engagement: Paradoxes of North American Armenian Return Migration

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