Home or Away?: On the Connotations of Homeland Imaginaries in Imbros
In: Diaspora and Memory
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Elif Babul
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Abstract
Home or Away?: On the Connotations of Homeland Imaginaries in Imbros
This article deals with issues of belonging and citizenship in the Turkish republic. It focuses on the island of Imbros as a state of exception both to the national homogeneity and the republican form of belonging to a place through citizenship. Rather than using the concepts such as “migration,” “homeland” and “return” intrinsic to diaspora studies as fixed and pre-given analytical categories, it sets out to explore the political implications of naming an immigrant condition as diaspora, and the sorts of imaginaries it renders possible as a discourse, in terms of “return” and “politics of the homeland.”