My Mother’s Table : At Home in the Maronite Diaspora, A Study of Emigration from Hadchit, North Lebanon to Australia and America
ISBN: 9781443830867
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Social Science;

In the era of globalisation, studies of migration focus on mobility, deterritorialised identities and diasporic forms of belonging across nation state boundaries. Indeed, uprootedness from the soil of home and place has resulted in a general condition of OCyhomelessnessOCO in late modernity, referred to as the diasporic condition. This study explores the construction of home amongst immigrants from Hadchit and their descendants in Australia and America and shows how their strategies of home-bui...


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