{"id":1568,"date":"2017-11-20T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2017-11-20T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T12:54:46","slug":"roots-migrants-transnationalism-and-return-among-second-generation-italians-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Roots Migrants\u2019: Transnationalism and \u2018Return\u2019 among Second-Generation Italians in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author(s) : Susanne Wessendorf<\/h3>\n

Source : http:\/\/www.compas.ox.ac.uk\/2006\/wp-2006-035-wessendorf_transnationalism_italians_switzerland\/<\/a><\/h3>\n

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It is common for members of the second generation to have nostalgic relations to the parents\u2019 place of origin, particularly if they have grown up in strong transnational social fields. This leads some to actually migrate to the place where their parents are from. They expect to find an ideal homeland which had provided them with a strong sense of belonging during their transnational childhoods and adolescences. This article develops the concept of \u2018roots-migration\u2019 to describe the migration of the second generation to the parents\u2019 homeland. Drawing on second-generation Italians in Switzerland and expanding upon theories of transnationalism, it examines the transformation of highly translocal everyday lives to the settlement in the parents\u2019 country of origin. It describes how the second generation deals with the discrepancies between their images of the homeland prior to migration and the actual realities they meet once they settle there. Furthermore, it explores how notions of belonging and \u2018roots\u2019 can be constructed and reified by nostalgia for another place, and how \u2018roots\u2019 can be lost when this other place is transformed from imagined to real.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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