{"id":27273,"date":"2008-06-28T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/r-king-a-christou-cultural-geographies-of-counter-diasporic-migration-the-second-generation-returns-home\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:03:34","slug":"r-king-a-christou-cultural-geographies-of-counter-diasporic-migration-the-second-generation-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/r-king-a-christou-cultural-geographies-of-counter-diasporic-migration-the-second-generation-returns-home\/","title":{"rendered":"R. King &#038; A. Christou &#8211; Cultural geographies of counter-diasporic migration: the second generation returns &#8220;home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>This paper introduces the notion of \u2018counter-diasporic migration\u2019 as the process whereby the second\u00a0generation relocates to the ancestral homeland \u2013 the birthplace of their parents. We review and critically analyse the three key literatures that frame this process \u2013 on the second generation, on diasporas and on return migration \u2013 and find that all of them say very little about the transnational links and return movements of this migrant generation. In the final part of the paper we examine issues of home, identity, place and belonging as constitutive elements of the cultural geography of second-generation return.<br \/>\nAlthough the paper is essentially a review and (re)conceptualisation, throughout the account we weave an empirical thread relating to recent research carried out by the authors on the return of second-generation Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans to their ancestral home in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/en\/2009\/01\/anastasia-christou_eliamep-presentation-june-23-2008.ppt\">presentation (PPT)<\/a> and the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/en\/2009\/01\/king-and-christou_the-second-generation-returns-home-2008_mwp45.pdf\">paper (pdf)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper introduces the notion of \u2018counter-diasporic migration\u2019 as the process whereby the second\u00a0generation relocates to the ancestral homeland \u2013 the birthplace of their parents. We review and critically analyse the three key literatures that frame this process \u2013 on the second generation, on diasporas and on return migration \u2013 and find that all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"program":[22],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44140,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273\/revisions\/44140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27273"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=27273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}