Editorial introduction: locating geographies of diaspora

Laoire, Caitríona Ní

doi:10.1002/ijpg.286

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“…Carter develops an insightful analysis of the Croatian diaspora and its involvement in the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s, arguing that there is a 'double re-territorialisation' between Croatia and its diaspora (2005: 62). Carter joins Mitchell (1997b) and other geographers (Ní Laoire, 2003;Samers, 2003;Mavroudi, 2007;King, 2010) in campaigning for a more critical analysis of the spatialities of diaspora. Geography lies at the heart of diaspora, both as a conceptnotably Avtar Brah's (1996) 'diaspora space'and as lived experience.…”

Section: Cultural Geographies Of Diasporamentioning

confidence: 99%

Geography and Migration Studies: Retrospect and Prospect

King

2011

Population Space and Place

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The paper engages with migration theory through a geographic perspective. It first argues that geographers, with their broad‐ranging subject matter, epistemological pluralism, and varied research methods, are ideally placed to carry out migration research and advance migration theory. Second, the paper casts a retrospective view at some highlights of geographers' theoretical contributions to migration. The third part reviews the recent and current states of play, which have seen a shift in the geographical study of migration from population geography to cultural geography, via the ‘cultural turn’. Four paradigmatic trends in the study of migration are reviewed – the mobilities turn, transnationalism, diaspora studies, and gendered approaches – and geographers' contributions to each of these are evaluated. The conclusion looks to the future, asks whether the cultural turn is over and, in the light of the global economic crisis, identifies new avenues of migration research for migration geographers. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Cultural Geographies Of Diasporamentioning

confidence: 99%

Geography and Migration Studies: Retrospect and Prospect

King

2011

Population Space and Place

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“…Similarly, diaspora studies has undergone a period of intense flux in the last decade following conceptual trends stimulated by the ‘cultural turn’, drawing out the spatialities and temporalities of diasporic experience (Christou and King ; Featherstone et al . ; Ní Laoire ). Diaspora has come to be known as ‘a scattering of people over space and transnational connections between people and places’ (Blunt , 158).…”

Section: Geographies Of ‘Home’ and ‘Diaspora’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Re‐‘homing’ the ex‐offender: constructing a ‘prisoner dyspora'

Turner

2013

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Recent work within and beyond the geography discipline has come to understand that where might be imagined a sharp boundary between the ‘hidden’ inside and outside of prisons, there is in fact a myriad of materials that cleave and bind penal geographies that mark the prison wall as a site of transaction and exchange. Recidivism in the UK is of serious concern, rendering the ‘prisoner’ a participant of a very unique and dynamic type of border exchange. In light of this, this paper questions how this impacts prisoners' identities and attachments to ‘home’. Although ex‐offenders may idealise a return to the communities where they lived prior to incarceration, the ability to re‐integrate is often limited. This may be attributed to the transformations that individuals undergo while spending time in prison, such as the possession of a criminal record. In grounding this discussion in the case of a company that employs ‘ex‐offenders’, I examine the implications of belonging to such a group of ‘conventional employees’ and ‘those with criminal records’; revealing tensions that complicate matters of belonging. This paper therefore posits the prison as a kind of ‘homeland’ that continues to significantly shape one's identity following their out‐migration. Those leaving prison find themselves unable to display conventional attachments to the outside society, while performing a dystopian relationship with the prison homeland, allowing for a consideration of what I have termed the ‘prisoner dyspora’.

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“…However, there are just as many actions that can be attributed to the engraved and non-conscious routinisation of daily life, although these routines are canalised by local and national strictures. Caitríona Ní Laoire has also edited a recent collection of sensitive papers on the geographies of diasapora that utilise various theoretical approaches to explore the lived nature of these movements and longings (Ní Laoire, 2003) Another inflection of the call to theorise has addressed the method of enquiry through exploring the potential of multi-methods research. This could challenge the complicity of methods in solidifying and naturalising the objects of research addressed above.…”

Section: Foucault's Population Geographies 149mentioning

confidence: 99%