- Title
- Memories of home : Family in the diaspora
- Creator
- Tsolidis, Georgina
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/58352
- Identifier
- vital:4298
- Identifier
- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-82055200708&partnerID=40&md5=0fc6c5a33035821fa13e1087b1ef2d9d
- Identifier
- ISSN:0047-2328
- Abstract
- 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.
- Relation
- Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 42, no. 3 (2011), p. 411-420
- Rights
- Copyright University of Calgary
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Diasporic Identification; Cultural Identity; Greek; Greece; Migrants; Feminist Theory
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