Description
Book SynopsisMigration and forcible displacement are growing and impactful dynamics of the current global age. These processes generate mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour driven by personal and collective memories. The chapters in this book highlight the importance of travel and tourism for enabling such memories and memory-based identity practices to unfold.
This book investigates how diasporic communities, transnational migrants, refugees and the internally displaced recreate home in their host place of residence through material culture, performativity and social relations; and how involuntary tangible and intangible stimuli evoke memories of home. It explores an array of diverse geographical contexts, balancing ethnographic vignettes of contemporary migrant societies with archival research providing historical accounts that reach back more than a century.
Memory, Migration and Travel makes an original contribution by linking the emergent field of
Table of Contents
1. Memory, Migration and Travel: Introduction 2. ‘Travelling Memories’: The Homemaking Practices of Skilled Mobile Settlers 3. Material Culture, Memory and Commemoration: Family and Community Celebrations and Connections to ‘Home’ among Asian Indian Immigrants 4. Remembrance, Cultural Performance and Travel: The Greek Migrants of Brasilia and the panigiri Festival 5. Gallipoli Revisited: Transnational and Transgenerational Memory among Turkish and Sikh Communities in Australia 6. ‘To Live in France’: The Confluence of Tourism, Memory, Migration and War 7. Pajouste Forest, 23 August 1941: Memory, Migration and Massacre 8. Old Homes Made New: American Jews Travelling to Eastern Europe from 1920 until the Present 9. The Macanese Encontros: Remembrance and Diaspora ‘Homecomings’ 10. Dinner in the Homeland: Memory, Food and the Armenian Diaspora 11. Memoryscapes of the Homeland by Two Generations of British-Bangladeshis 12. Translocal Narratives of Memory, Place and Belonging: Second-generation Turkish-Germans’ Home-making upon ‘Return’ to Turkey 13. Conclusion
