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“Helen Taylor’s (2015) work on the Greek and Turkish Cypriot community in London is an investigation into how enforced displacement and exile problematizes questions of home, notably as diasporic generations become postdiasporic. … Interweaving theoretical insights into a careful and revealing account of the phenomenologies of home, Taylor is able to convey the complexities of home and how most Cypriots experience a sense of deep rooted and yet dual belonging. … Taylor’s research constitutes strong empirical testimony to the abiding importance of soil and rootedness in the mythologies of nation.” (Paul Nesbitt-Larking, Political Psychology, vol. 38 (3), 2017)
"Transcending the immediate setting of the Cypriot refugees from 1974, but drawing on their narratives after four decades of exile, Helen Taylor's book is a nuanced, compassionate and rich ethnography of the universal preoccupation with the meaning of home and, especially, the loss of home for forcibly displaced people. Recognising the multiple, complex, and often contradictory spatial, temporal, material and relational meanings which refugees ascribe to home, Refugees and the Meaning of Home. Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London is an innovative and subtle exploration of the way forced displacement impacts upon the making, unmaking and remaking of home for protracted refugees." - Roger Zetter, University of Oxford, UK
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Book Title: Refugees and the Meaning of Home
Book Subtitle: Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London
Authors: Helen Taylor
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137553331
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55332-4Published: 03 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55333-1Published: 03 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 188
Topics: Migration, Sociology, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnicity Studies