Georges woke up laughing : long distance nationalism and the search for home

Authors:Nina Glick Schiller, Georges Fouron

Summary:Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, this title provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States in order to illuminate the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism in an increasingly globalised world.

Print Book, English, 2002

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Publisher: Duke University Press, Durham, 2002

Genre:Interviews

Physical Description:324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9780822327912, 9780822327813, 0822327910, 0822327813

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1015461681

Contents:

Acknowledgments ix1. “At First I Was Laughing” 12. Long-Distance Nationalism Defined 173. Delivering the Commission: The Return of the Native 364. “Without Them, I Would Not Be Here”: Transnational Kinship 585. “The Blood Remains Haitian”: Race, Nation, and Belonging in the Transmigrant Experience 926. “She Tried to Reclaim Me”: Gendered Long-Distance Nationalism 1307. The Generation of Identity: The Long-Distance Nationalism of the Second Generation 1558. “The Responsible State”: Dialogues of a Transborder Citizenry 1789. The Apparent State: Sovereignty and the State of U.S.-Haitian Relations 20810. Long-Distance Nationalism as a Debate: Shared Symbols and Disparate Messages 23811. The Other Side of the Two-Way Street: Long-Distance Nationalism as a Subaltern Agenda 258Notes 275Bibliography 298Index 314