Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity

Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home

Bibliographic Data

ID7425545
AuthorsAnastasia Christou (0000-0002-8796-1191, corresponding author)
Year2006
Pages264
Publication date2006-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNarratives of Place, Culture and Identity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherAmsterdam University Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.5117/9789053568781
OpenAlexW1900598862
Open LibraryOL12808348M
ISBN9789053568781
LanguageEN
Citations received52
References cited58

Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion)IMISCOE is a European Commission-funded Network of Excellence of more than 350 scientists from various research institutes that specialise in migration and integration issues in Europe.These researchers, who come from all branches of the economic and social sciences, the humanities and law, implement an integrated, multidisciplinary and internationally comparative research program that focuses on Europe's migration and integration challenges.Within the program, existing research is integrated and new research lines are developed that involve issues crucial to European-level policy-making and provide a theory-based design to implement new research.five-month intensive fieldwork study with second-generation Greek-American return migrants in Athens, Greece.Based on an initial sample of ten participants, this part of the fieldwork, from May to September 2001, formed the pilot study of my research.The analysis of that data and their writing up were completed during my stay as Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research.Some results of this first phase of fieldwork were published in Christou (2002).The second part of my fieldwork resumed with my arrival back in Greece in April 2002.A total of thirty new in-depth interviews were completed and participants' journals collected until August 2002.The third and final part of the fieldwork study and empirical analysis of the forty life stories took place from September 2002 to the summer of 2003.The final stage included meetings with participants to discuss transcript interpretation.The names (pseudonyms) and basic biographical characteristics of the sample of 40 participants are set out in summary form in the Appendix.From the pilot study I concluded that it was essential to the research design that participants met certain criteria.The project was designed to include only those return migrants who were second-generation

Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Emigration & Immigration · emigration and immigration · Europe · Greek Americans · Return migration · Science · Social Science · Society & culture: general · Sociology · Sociology & anthropology · united states

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