Walkers of the everyday -- Placing Somalia -- Living one-eyed -- An accidental move -- Home-building -- Homewards -- At home in the universe -- Gendered dis/emplacements -- Displaced stories -- Placeless dreams -- Final juncture : concluding words
Summary
Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people's everyday lives. Through their experiences of displacement and placemaking, Being-Here examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement, and moves anthropological theory towards a new understanding of the crucial existential links between Sein (Being) and Da (Here)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 02, 2019)
