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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 240
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Global Studies
Publication Date:
15 August 2023
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837662542
Format: Paperback
»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.«
Tsypylma Darieva (PD Dr.) is a senior researcher at the Centre for East European and international Studies (ZOiS) Berlin, where she leads the research cluster »Migration and Diversity«. Trained as social anthropologist she is teaching at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Her research is focused on the anthropology of migration, diaspora and transnationalism, post-socialist urbanity, religious diversity and activism in Eastern Europe and Southern Eurasia.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Figures and Tables 7
Acknowledgements 9
Map of the South Caucasus 11
Transliteration Note 13
Introduction. Exploring 'Roots' Mobilities and Making a Homeland 15
Chapter 1. Repositioning the Homeland 41
Chapter 2. Discovering the Homeland - A New Generation of Armenian Diasporic Organisations 73
Chapter 3. Travelling the Homeland - Diasporic Youth 101
Chapter 4. Constructing Bonds to the Homeland - Diasporic Culture of Philanthropy 127
Chapter 5. Making the Homeland - Creating Visceral Connections 159
Conclusion 201
Glossaries 211
Bibliography 223
