Memories of Home

Family in the Diaspora

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ID3042525
AuthorsG Tsolidis (0000-0002-5543-432X, Federation University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume42
Issue3
Pages411-420
Publication date2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.42.3.411
OpenAlexW2424293593
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited2

This article draws on long-term work on diasporic identification whereby the Greek community is used as an exemplar of diaspora. A particular focus of this work has been the maternal and the role women play in transferring cultural identity between nations and between generations. In this context, diasporic identification is understood in Hall's sense of invoking a past and evoking a future personal becoming. Qualitative research has been carried out in Australia and Canada and with 'return migrants' in Greece. These women invoke their parents' memories of 'home' and their own memories of growing up as migrants to evoke new cultural identities for their own children. In this sense, their family becomes a transnational space in which memories manufacture futures. Feminist theory is used to reflect on the tensions these women experience because family can be both a potential source of oppression because of patriarchy, and a potential source of support against xenophobia

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology) · Diaspora · Feminism · Feminist theory · Identification (biology) · Identity (music) · Oppression · Patriarchy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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