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The mobilization of people, populations, and places—and the social interrelations of space and time, memory and longing, and the global and local—are uniquely analyzed in this fascinating study. Instead of viewing social and cultural relations through the lenses of rigid institutions, fixed territories, or rooted communities, Ilcan focuses on mobile sites to explore the cultural politics of settlement. This book examines the social relations of longing and belonging to be found in nation building, ethnographic practices, dwelling, and diasporas. Ilcan propels us into various dimensions of movement, as well as social relations in the fields of dispersion, transition, and displacement. Drawing on insights from cultural studies, sociology, and anthropology, she inquires into contemporary and critical issues on the movement of peoples. Transitional communities represent the tensions and risks confronting those compelled to leave home, or those for whom a sense of longing superseded any feeling of belonging. This book provides fresh insight into the placement, and displacement, of particular social groups, including guest workers, migrants, and immigrants. Ilcan covers the varieties of diasporic relations and the settlements they form, as well as the manifold ways in which they affect traditional practices of settlement. She considers the cultural, economic, and political implications of globalization, evoking the struggle in our places of habitation, and the strategies deployed to subvert our habits of settlement.

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This work of theory and ethnography on the Turkish diaspora makes an important contribution to the growing literature on cultural and identity formations and other social relations under conditions of diaspora and transnationalism. Instead of fixed sites and institutions, Ilcan focuses on spaces and practices created by mobility as people experience dispersion, transition, and displacement from national, regional, or ethnic locations, an enormous global phenomenon in the mid- to late 20th century. By definition unstable, these transnational and diasporic communities and their migratory networks make necessary adjustments to recurring patterns of settlement and resettlement, contributing to migrant nationalism and the nation building process....Upper-division undergraduates and above. -Choice ?This work of theory and ethnography on the Turkish diaspora makes an important contribution to the growing literature on cultural and identity formations and other social relations under conditions of diaspora and transnationalism. Instead of fixed sites and institutions, Ilcan focuses on spaces and practices created by mobility as people experience dispersion, transition, and displacement from national, regional, or ethnic locations, an enormous global phenomenon in the mid- to late 20th century. By definition unstable, these transnational and diasporic communities and their migratory networks make necessary adjustments to recurring patterns of settlement and resettlement, contributing to migrant nationalism and the nation building process....Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice

"?This work of theory and ethnography on the Turkish diaspora makes an important contribution to the growing literature on cultural and identity formations and other social relations under conditions of diaspora and transnationalism. Instead of fixed sites and institutions, Ilcan focuses on spaces and practices created by mobility as people experience dispersion, transition, and displacement from national, regional, or ethnic locations, an enormous global phenomenon in the mid- to late 20th century. By definition unstable, these transnational and diasporic communities and their migratory networks make necessary adjustments to recurring patterns of settlement and resettlement, contributing to migrant nationalism and the nation building process....Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice ""This work of theory and ethnography on the Turkish diaspora makes an important contribution to the growing literature on cultural and identity formations and other social relations under conditions of diaspora and transnationalism. Instead of fixed sites and institutions, Ilcan focuses on spaces and practices created by mobility as people experience dispersion, transition, and displacement from national, regional, or ethnic locations, an enormous global phenomenon in the mid- to late 20th century. By definition unstable, these transnational and diasporic communities and their migratory networks make necessary adjustments to recurring patterns of settlement and resettlement, contributing to migrant nationalism and the nation building process....Upper-division undergraduates and above.""-Choice"

?This work of theory and ethnography on the Turkish diaspora makes an important contribution to the growing literature on cultural and identity formations and other social relations under conditions of diaspora and transnationalism. Instead of fixed sites and institutions, Ilcan focuses on spaces and practices created by mobility as people experience dispersion, transition, and displacement from national, regional, or ethnic locations, an enormous global phenomenon in the mid- to late 20th century. By definition unstable, these transnational and diasporic communities and their migratory networks make necessary adjustments to recurring patterns of settlement and resettlement, contributing to migrant nationalism and the nation building process....Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice

?This work of theory and ethnography on the Turkish diaspora makes an important contribution to the growing literature on cultural and identity formations and other social relations under conditions of diaspora and transnationalism. Instead of fixed sites and institutions, Ilcan focuses on spaces and practices created by mobility as people experience dispersion, transition, and displacement from national, regional, or ethnic locations, an enormous global phenomenon in the mid- to late 20th century. By definition unstable, these transnational and diasporic communities and their migratory networks make necessary adjustments to recurring patterns of settlement and resettlement, contributing to migrant nationalism and the nation building process....Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice This work of theory and ethnography on the Turkish diaspora makes an important contribution to the growing literature on cultural and identity formations and other social relations under conditions of diaspora and transnationalism. Instead of fixed sites and institutions, Ilcan focuses on spaces and practices created by mobility as people experience dispersion, transition, and displacement from national, regional, or ethnic locations, an enormous global phenomenon in the mid- to late 20th century. By definition unstable, these transnational and diasporic communities and their migratory networks make necessary adjustments to recurring patterns of settlement and resettlement, contributing to migrant nationalism and the nation building process....Upper-division undergraduates and above. -Choice

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SUZAN ILCAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Windsor. She is Editor of Transgressing Borders (with Lynne Phillips, Bergin & Garvey, 1998).

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