Creating a Home Abroad: Home-making Practices Among Post-Soviet Immigrants in Athens
2018 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
The contemporary world is characterized by the increase in human mobility and the rise of opportunities to travel and migrate from one place to another. Being historically a country of emigration, in the last three decades, Greece became a destination place for people from the neighboring countries, including the post-Soviet migrants who moved there after the collapse of the USSR. While some of them came for a limited period of time, others were willing to settle down permanently, and create their new home there. The current paper aims to explore the question of home and its various meanings focusing on the everyday life of the male and female immigrants in Athens, who had been residing there between three and twenty years and came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. This work shows that the concept of home and the practices of its making have multiple dimensions that are intertwined and that the difference in the feelings towards a ‘new home’ depends on the reasons behind migration to a new country.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. , p. 83
Keywords [en]
home, home-making practices, home abroad, post-Soviet immigrants, Athens
National Category
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-149435ISRN: LiU-ISV/EMS-A--18/10--SEOAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-149435DiVA, id: diva2:1229309
Subject / course
Master's Programme in Ethnic and Migration Studies
Presentation
2018-06-05, Norrköping, 11:15 (English)
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-05-142018-06-292019-05-14Bibliographically approved