Home Across Borders

An Ethnography of Sri Lankan Immigrants in Australia

Jagath Bandara Pathirage (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

2026
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-87569-9 (ISBN)

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This book studies how transnational migrants create a sense of home in their host countries. It draws on case studies of Sri Lankan migrants living in Australia to argue that 'home' is an existential experience rather than a fixed entity. The author looks at how the sense of home arises as a fresh category which is critical in defining one’s existentiality in the host society.

Going beyond the conventional methodological approach of an ethnographer objectivizing other’s sense of home into fixed categories, the book attempts to foreground the immigrant’s articulation of home which evolves parallel to their being. It reveals how three important aspects of our lives – time, space and memory – intersect with the trajectories of migration. The author also delves into the ways in which migrants engage in building a home as a way of creating materiality in their dwelling practice.

Unique and compelling, the book will be highly useful in studies of diaspora, globalisation and transnational migration. It will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of anthropology, migration and transnational studies, as well as sociology and other related disciplines.

Jagath Bandara Pathirage completed his first degree in sociology at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He did his MSc in social anthropologyn at the University of Edinburgh, UK and PhD at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Colombo and Honarary Research Felow to the Charles Darwin University in Australia.

List of Figures viii Preface ix Acknowledgements xi PART I Thoughts and Methods of home 1 1 Introduction: Thoughts on ‘Home’ 3 2 Methods of ‘Home’ 21 PART II Perceptions of home 37 3 Home Remembered and Nostalgia: Becoming through Time and Space 39 4 Home Unsettled and Disrupted 75 5 Forging Relationships: Post-migration, Social Networks, Settlement Experiences and Home 96 PART III Cultivating Home 123 6 Building Home: Transformation of Space into Place 125 7 Transnationalised Religion and the Construction of Home 163 8 Conclusion 188 Index 197

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-87569-0 / 1032875690
ISBN-13	978-1-032-87569-9 / 9781032875699
Zustand	Neuware