Glick Schiller / Fouron / Joseph Georges Woke Up Laughing

Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8323-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

A study of how migrants adapt to their new country while still maintaining ties to the old with an emphasis on Haitian migrants to the US.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glick Schiller, Nina

Fouron, Georges Eugene

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. “At First I Was Laughing” 1

2. Long-Distance Nationalism Defined 17

3. Delivering the Commission: The Return of the Native 36

4. “Without Them, I Would Not Be Here”: Transnational Kinship 58

5. “The Blood Remains Haitian”: Race, Nation, and Belonging in the Transmigrant Experience 92

6. “She Tried to Reclaim Me”: Gendered Long-Distance Nationalism 130

7. The Generation of Identity: The Long-Distance Nationalism of the Second Generation 155

8. “The Responsible State”: Dialogues of a Transborder Citizenry 178

9. The Apparent State: Sovereignty and the State of U.S.-Haitian Relations 208

10. Long-Distance Nationalism as a Debate: Shared Symbols and Disparate Messages 238

11. The Other Side of the Two-Way Street: Long-Distance Nationalism as a Subaltern Agenda 258

Notes 275

Bibliography 298

Index 314

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Glick Schiller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire.Georges Eugene Fouron is Associate Professor of Education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.