Making a Homeland

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A rich examination of the changing nature of transnational migratory flows, the new generation of diasporic youth among global Armenians and their attachment to the ancestral homeland.
Ties to the homeland have always been a central focus of global diaspora and migration studies. How and why do the descendants of migrants maintain their attachment to the ancestral homeland? To what extent do emotional ties bind second and later generations of migrants to that place? Tsypylma Darieva examines various actors, channels and sites of transnational Armenian engagement that generate new pathways of diasporic ›roots‹ mobility. Drawing on long-term ethnographic observations in Armenia and in the USA, she examines transnational flows of people, money and ideas to show the social and political significance that roots mobility acquires when the mythical ›homeland‹ becomes a real place.

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Tsypylma Darieva

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Transnational Engagement Migration Globalization Diaspora Memory Culture Homeland Cultural Anthropology Armenia Eastern Europe USA Sociology

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»The book provides a wealth of information on the engagement of the Armenian diaspora settled in North America, and examines types of diaspora-homeland relations that are rarely put under the  spotlight.«
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