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1 online resource |
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Intro; Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies; Contents; About the Contributors; Introduction; Spaces; Practices; Biographies; References; Part I: Spaces; Chapter 1: Entangled Belongings: Reimagining Transnational Biographies of Black and Global African Diasporic Kinship; Introduction: Scattered Beginnings and Diasporic Wonderings; Roots, Routes and Detours: Tracing the Contours and the Limits of Black and African Diasporic Kinship; Roots and the American-African Diaspora: 'Are You Our People'? |
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Routes and the English-African Diaspora: The Cultural and ExƯƯpressive Paradoxes of Belonging, Blackness and Englishness; Detours and Southern European Clandestine Migration Zones: Out of Africa ('By Any Means Necessary'); Conclusion: Crafting New Forms of Belonging; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2: People Like Me: Multiple Belongings Among Senior Mobile Home Residents in Florida; Introduction; Belonging, Migration and Mobility; Belonging; Migration and Mobility in Older Age; Methods and Data; Multiple Belongings Among Senior Mobile Home Residents; Elective Belonging in Florida |
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Selective Belonging in Senior Communities; Resistant Belonging in Mobile Homes; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Finding their Place: The Multiscalar Belonging of African Academics on a South African University Campus; Introduction; The Spatiality of Belonging; Race, Class and International Scholars; Case Study: University of the Free State; Methodology; Findings; The University Campus; The Campus, the City and the Nation; The Campus as a Link to the World; Concluding Discussion; References; Chapter 4: Senses of Belonging and Nonbelonging within Citizens' Summits in Amsterdam; Introduction |
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The House of Democracy: Longing for Belonging; Description of the Citizens' Summits in Amsterdam; A Trial Run with a Neighbourhood Summit; Citizens' Summit Amsterdam; The Follow Up; Home and Belonging: A Matter of Diversity; Citizens' Summits as a Place for System and/or Life World Principles?; Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Between Ambiguity and Ambition: Experiences of Belonging and Spatial Mobility Among Business Professionals Whose Parents Migrated from Turkey; Introduction; Theoretical Framework; Place Attachment and the Integration Paradigm; Feeling 'In-Between' |
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The Market Demand for Flexible Professionals and Spatial Mobility; Methodology; Data Collection; Sample Overview; Data Analysis; Analysis; Local Attachment: 'Not An Outsider Anymore'; Employing In-Betweenness: 'I Might Stay, I Might Leave'; Belonging to 'Elsewhere': London, New York and Istanbul; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Part II: Practices; Chapter 6: Identity and Belonging: Conceptualizations and Reframings through a Translocational Lens; Introduction; Mapping the Conceptual Parameters of Belonging and Identity; Identity; Belonging; Dimensions of Belonging |
| Summary |
Contributions address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Focussing on three particular dimensions of belonging: belonging as space (neighbourhood, workplace, home), as practice (virtual, physical, cultural), and as biography (life stories, group narratives) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018) |
| Subject |
Belonging (Social psychology)
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"Migration, immigration & emigration".
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Belonging (Social psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Kathy, 1949- editor.
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Ghorashi, Halleh, editor
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Smets, Peer, editor
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| ISBN |
9781787432062 |
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1787432068 |
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9781787432505 |
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1787432505 |
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