"I am now a nobody"

Beschreibung

"With migration, home is redefined (...), and a sense of belonging is related not to one place but to multiple sites (...). Indeed, Avtar Brah (...) writes that 'on the one hand, 'home' is a mythic place of desire in the diasporic imagination. In this sense, it is a place of no return, even if it is possible to visit the geographical territory that is seen as the place of 'origin'. On the other hand, home is also the lived experience of locality'. Brah's concept of a 'homing desire' points out that there is no possibility of returning to such an idealised home and indicates that not all migrants maintain an ideology of a return to a place of 'origin'. On the basis of an in-depth analysis of this case study (...) in this chapter I explore this alternative, suggesting that migrants may sometimes avoid a nostalgic view of home and instead demonstrate a resilient and practical transnational strategy of home. Although it is often understood that ageing prompts people to became more immobile (...) and more focused on locality, this chapter demonstrates the opposite tendency, namely that, in older age and especially with retirement, people can also become more mobile than they were previously. This chapter thereby contributes to research on ageing examining the changing nature of community attachments in later life against the backdrop of globalisation processes (...), in resonance with work on transnational mobilities in retirement migration (...)." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Zitationshinweis

Meier, Lars (2016): "I am now a nobody". Transformations of home and senses of belonging in the life narrative of a retired migrant worker in the industrial sector in Nuremberg. In: K. Walsh & L. Näre (Hrsg.) (2016): Transnational migration and home in older age, S. 165-175.