Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return

Safran, William

doi:10.1353/dsp.1991.0004

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“…The importance of material culture naturally evolves into larger biographical horizons: indeed, Bilecen shows the functioning of a myth of return among these immigrants. As in the case of other migrations (Safran 1991;Boccagni 2011), the idea of return to the homeland encourages the practice of owning and buying a house in the country of origin. Bilecen stresses how her interviewees constantly struggle to keep their two houses within a single framework through a comparative discourse.…”

Section: Home and The Thresholds Of Domesticitymentioning

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Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Boccagni

Brighenti

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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The search for home as a material and symbolic space is an increasingly salient social question across contemporary multiethnic cities. The boundaries between what is public, communal and domestic are increasingly contested and yet remain a crucial issue, especially for minority groups such as immigrant and ethnic communities. The domestication of everyday living spaces carried out by immigrant and ethnic groups entails a variety of ways of 'cultivating home'. In a context characterized by transnational mobility, ethnic segregation and social marginality, domesticity-understood as the potential to enact a domestic dimension in meaningful places-is an important asset to resist present hardships, cultivate memory and lay out projects for the future. In this Editorial, we seek to untangle the multiple stakes entailed by the practices of 'making home' and 'feeling at home'. We invite scholars to observe how, even in minute and mundane details, dwelling places and the built environment come to be imbued with social and cultural meanings, which are pivotal to survival and social recognition. The articulation of domesticity, commonality and publicness can be fruitfully mapped through the concept of 'thresholds', which brings together the case studies that follow. By doing so, this Special Issue as a whole lays out a new research agenda at the intersection of housing, urban and migration studies.

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Section: Home and The Thresholds Of Domesticitymentioning

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Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Boccagni

Brighenti

2015

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…De manera que cuando se afianza Internet y surgen las plataformas de producción de contenidos ya señaladas, existe una gran cantidad de emigrados de la isla viviendo una existencia diaspórica, con todo lo que implica esa dualidad identitaria, según refieren varios teóricos (Tölölyan 1991;Saffran, 1991;Brah, 1996;Cohen, 1997). Se trata, no obstante, de una "comunidad" cuya situación con respecto al país de origen se torna compleja, pues carece del intercambio regular y Campaña mediática y ciberguerra son términos que pueden explicarse como derivados retóricos de la Batalla de Ideas.…”

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Muñequitos rusos: la nostalgia y su contexto en la diáspora cubana

Alfonso¹

2015

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Resumen: El presente artículo examina la importancia de la influencia soviética en la Cuba revolucionaria como incentivo para la vinculación afectiva transnacional entre emigrados cubanos, a través del análisis de las entradas e interacciones del blog Muñequitos Rusos, creado con el propósito de rescatar parte de la memoria colectiva de ese período reciente en la historia de la isla. Mi argumentación se enfoca al consumo y producción de “memorias mediáticas” en la diáspora, un espacio complejo que se caracteriza por la tensión que ejercen el país de origen y el de adopción, en la vida cotidiana de los emigrados y en sus constantes intentos por definir sus lealtades e identidad. Parto de que en este contexto, el pasado adquiere una importancia primordial como centro hacia el cual dirigir las nociones de pertenencia que influyen además en la formación de identidades. En mi opinión tales interacciones asociadas con los muñequitos, como síntesis emocional de un período más complejo e influyente, repercute en las estrategias personales mediante las cuales los emigrados cubanos construyen sus nociones de identidad y sobre todo para, desde la diáspora, revisar y elaborar sus propias nociones sobre el pasado común en su país de origen. Abstract: This articles discusses the importance of the Soviet influence in revolutionary Cuba as an incentive for transnational bonding amongst Cuban emigrants, by analysing the posts and interactions in the blog Muñequitos Rusos (Russian cartoons), created with the aim of recovering part of the collective memory of that recent period in the history of the Caribbean island. My argument focuses on the consumption and production of “mediated memories” in the context of diaspora a complex space characterised by the tension of the homeland and the host country in the emigrants’ everyday life and in their constant attempts to define their loyalties and identity. I start from the premise that in this context, the past acquires a vital importance, as a centre to which address notions of belonging, which also influences identity formation. I argue that such interactions associated with the cartoons, as an emotional summary for a more complex and influential period, affects the ways in which Cuban émigrés construct their notions of identity and, above all, revise and elaborate in diaspora their own notions about the common past in the homeland. Keywords: Russian Cartoons, Blogs, Collective Memory, Cuban diaspora, Cuba, USSR.

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“…In general, 28 William Safran also emphasises that 'Diaspora consciousness is a particular kind of awareness said to be generated among contemporary transnational communities'. (Safran 1991 PART 1…”

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“…In the introduction we have seen that there are five main features which are needed in order to define expatriate minority communities or diasporas: (1) Dispersal of individuals, communities or their ancestors from an original centre to at least two further locations; (2) Maintenance of a myth in relation to their homeland; (3) Alienation in the country to which they migrated; (4) Envisaging a return to their homeland at some future point in time and; (5) Dedicated to a relationship with this homeland (Safran 1991).…”

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Global Indian Diasporas : Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory

Oonk¹

2007

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Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return

Cited by 1,763 publications

References 14 publications

Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Immigrants and home in the making: thresholds of domesticity, commonality and publicness

Muñequitos rusos: la nostalgia y su contexto en la diáspora cubana

Global Indian Diasporas : Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory

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