Tourism and memories of home : migrants, displaced people, exiles and diasporic communities

Summary: "This book investigates 'home' and 'homeland' as destinations of touristic journeys and adds to recent scholarly interest in the intersection between tourism and migration. It covers the temporary visits and journeys in search of home and homelands by migrants, displaced people, exiles and diasporic communities in a wide range of different geographical and historical contexts. Personal and collective forms of memory are shown to play a key role in the motivation for, and experience of, such journeys. The volume contributes to the investigation of the tourism-memory nexus as it conceptualizes memory as underpinning touristic mobility, experience and performativity. Based on ethnographic case studies and other types of qualitative empirical research, the chapters of this book foreground individual touristic experiences, emotions, memories, perceptions, the search for identity and a sense of belonging. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of tourism, heritage, anthropology, identity studies, memory studies and migration/diaspora studies."--Publisher's website.

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Physical Description: print
xv, 288 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Bristol, UK ; Channel View Publications, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Tourism and Memories of Home: Introduction / Sabine Marschall -- 2. Homecoming Emigrants as Tourists: Reconnecting the Scottish Diaspora / Marjory Harper -- 3. You Can't Go Home Again -- Only Visit: Memory, Trauma and Tourism at Chernobyl / Ganna Yankovska -- 4. Emotional Inventories: Accounts of Post-war Journeys `Home' by Ethnic German Expellees / Julia Wagner -- 5. `Home Tourism' within a Conflict: Palestinian Visits to Houses and Villages Depopulated in 1948 / Mustafa Kabha -- 6. Travelling at Special Times: The Nepali Diaspora's Yearning for Belongingness / Kalyan Bhandari -- 7. Collecting Kinship and Crafting Home: The Souveniring of Self and Other in Diaspora Homeland Tourism / Jillian L. Powers -- 8. Returning, Imagining and Recreating Home from the Diaspora: Tourism Narratives of the Eritrean Diaspora in Italy / Anna Arnone -- 9. Travelling to the Homeland over a Double Diaspora: Memory, Landscape and Sense of Belonging. Insights from Transylvanian Saxons / Monica Iorio -- 10. Domesticating Dark Tourism: Familial Roots Trips to the Holocaust Past / Carol A. Kidron -- 11. Articulation of Collective Slave Memories and `Home' among Expatriate Diasporan Africans in Ghana / Aaron Yankholmes -- 12. Ongi Etorri Etxera (Welcome Home): A Gathering of Homecomings: Personal and Ancestral Memory / Nina M. Ray -- 13. Epilogue: Home, Travel, Memory and Anthropology / Nelson Graburn.