Returnof British-Born Cypriots to Cyprus: A Narrative Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9781845196950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str.

Janine Teerling

Opis

Drawing on multisite fieldwork and adopting a life-narrative approach, this book offers a contemporary account of the motives, experiences, and life views of second-generation British Cypriots as they build their lives in their parents' birth country: a Cyprus that has been dramatically altered by globalization, mass tourism, and immigration since the first generation of immigrants left for British shores. This work shows how this new wave of migrants, unlike their parents who moved from Cyprus to the UK mainly out of economic necessity, tend to view their relocation to Cyprus as a lifestyle choice. The author examines the complexities and ambivalences involved when exploring ideas of identity, return, home, and belonging in the ancestral homeland--demonstrating how boundaries of such notions are blurred, eroded, and reestablished by a new generation of migrants, reflecting their time, experiences, choices, and ideologies.