Diasporic constructions of home and belonging

Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science, anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of belonging in diasporic contexts. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines discuss a variety of historical and geographical instances of diasporas, exploring the methodological and theoretical challenges posed by the subjects of 'home' and 'belonging'. Including an interview with Homi K. Bhabha on these subjects and the place of theory in diaspora studies as well as contributions by such central figures as Pnina Werbner and Ihab Hassan, the volume aims at offering a new prospectus of the range and potential of academic work on the cultural formations of diaspora.

Front matter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction /; 'Home' and 'Belonging' in Diaspora Studies Now --; Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on "Diaspora and Home"¹ --; Extraterritorial: Exile, Diaspora, and the Ground under Your Feet /; The Boundaries of Diaspora: A Critical Response to Brubaker /; Mutations of the Trans-Migrare: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Individuation and Un-Homing on the Other Side of Belonging /; Diasporic Selves: Memory, Identity, Agency --; Hyphenated Homes: Elizabeth Jane Weston and the Diaspora of Early Modern English Catholics /; East German Constructions of Home in the Context of Intra-German Migration Movements Since 1989 /; Reflections on the Korean Diaspora in Manchuria /; Home Work: Post-Fukushima Constructions of Furusato by Japanese Nationals Living in Belgium /; Diasporic Individuals - A Hidden Peace Building Capacity? /; The Process of Integration among German Expellees in the GDR /; Notions of Home and Belonging for Alteinwanderer and Neueinwanderer in the German-Speaking Community in Ottawa /; Home and Belonging in a Semi-Diasporic Setting: Converts to 'Reflexive Islam' in West European Societies /; Home-Making: Space, Virtuality, Ideology --; Being Home through Learning Palestinian Sociality: Swedish-Palestinian Houses in the West Bank /; The Sanctification of Home in Late Medieval England /; Constituting Transareal Convivence via Portable Collection Books: Home and Belonging in Times of Uprootedness and Increased Mobility /; At Home Abroad? International House New York and the Cité Universitaire in Paris: Cosmopolitan versus Diasporic Internationalism /; "Unfortunately, there is no plural for 'Heimat' in German": Home and Belonging in German Naturalization Ceremonies /; Becoming an American: Rethinking the United States Naturalization Policy /; Chris Abani's GraceLand: Constructing a Diasporic Space in a Postcolonial Metropolis /; No Place like Home? Conceptualizations of 'Home' in Salman Rushdie's "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers" and Roshi Fernando's Homesick /; Narratives of Belonging: (Hi‐)stories, Boundaries, Trajectories --; Beyond the Hall: Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging in Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer /; (Non)Autochthonous Origins and the Question of Home and Exile in Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Hebrew Literature /; Geographies of Home: Constructions of Home and Belonging in Contemporary Emerging Adult Fiction /; It All Depends on What You Mean by Home: Metaphors of Return in Chinese American Travel Memoirs from the 1980's to 2010's /; Too Chinese/Too Cuban: Emotional Maps and the Quest for Happiness in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting /; Diasporic 'Home' and Transnational Identities in Gail Jones' Five Bells /; German-Turkish Identity in Fatih Akin's Head-On: Transgressing Gender Boundaries, Redefining Home and Belonging /; Shared Pleasures and Strange Elisions: Three Types of Queer Ambiguity and 'Return-Migration' in Afrosporic Fiction /; List of Contributors --; Index / Kläger, Florian / Stierstorfer, Klaus --; Hassan, Ihab --; Werbner, Pnina --; Chatta, Rasha --; Fielitz, Sonja --; Flack, Jaqueline --; Jacob, Frank --; Niehaus, Andreas / Walravens, Tine --; Janassary, Anita --; Bierwerth, Gesa --; Patzelt, Anke --; Uhlmann, Milena --; Gren, Nina --; Kern-Stähler, Annette --; Pelz, Annegret / Windsperger, Marianne --; Weymans, Wim --; Jakob, Maria --; Li, Qianqian --; Bauer, Annika --; Butter, Stella --; Wagner, Ricarda --; Weiss, Vered --; Hertlein, Saskia --; Amato, Jean --; García, Elena Igartuburu --; Kušnír, Jaroslav --; Eicken, Verena von --; Zabus, Chantal --