Beschreibung:
Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron
"Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron do a masterful job of describing the full spectrum of factors shaping the experience of migration, ranging from utopian dreams of the home country to the hard reality that some states are only apparent states. This is a work of inspired ethnographic research, stunning scholarship, and creative grace and energy."--Karen McCarthy Brown, author of "Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn"
Acknowledgments ix1. “At First I Was Laughing” 12. Long-Distance Nationalism Defined 173. Delivering the Commission: The Return of the Native 364. “Without Them, I Would Not Be Here”: Transnational Kinship 585. “The Blood Remains Haitian”: Race, Nation, and Belonging in the Transmigrant Experience 926. “She Tried to Reclaim Me”: Gendered Long-Distance Nationalism 1307. The Generation of Identity: The Long-Distance Nationalism of the Second Generation 1558. “The Responsible State”: Dialogues of a Transborder Citizenry 1789. The Apparent State: Sovereignty and the State of U.S.-Haitian Relations 20810. Long-Distance Nationalism as a Debate: Shared Symbols and Disparate Messages 23811. The Other Side of the Two-Way Street: Long-Distance Nationalism as a Subaltern Agenda 258Notes 275Bibliography 298Index 314