ISBN:
9781501768866
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 151 pages)
,
Illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
DDC:
302.5
Keywords:
Belonging (Social psychology)
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Identity (Psychology) Social aspects
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Marginality, Social
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Social integration
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Mind and reality Social aspects
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Ethnology
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Society
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Migration, immigration & emigration
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Sociology & anthropology
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Anthropology
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Social & cultural anthropology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
'Documenting Impossible Realities' explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experiences of adoptees, deportees, migrants, and other exilic populations. Susan Bibler Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson speak to the current historical moment in which the dichotomy between an 'above ground' inhabited by dominant groups and an 'underground' to which unauthorised immigrants, political exiles, and transnational adoptees are relegated cannot be sustained. This dichotomy was made possible by the illusion that some people do not belong, that some forms of kin are not real, or that certain ways of knowing do not count. To examine accounts that challenge such illusions, the authors focus on the spaces between groups, where difference is constituted and where the potential for new forms of relationship may be realised.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7591/cornell/9781501768828.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501768828.001.0001
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501768866
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501768866
URL:
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