Memory, Migration and Travel

Migration and forcible displacement are increasingly significant dynamics of the global age, driven by personal and collective memories. This book explores how diasporic communities, transnational migrants, refugees, and internally displaced recreate home through material culture, performativity, and social relations, and how involuntary stimuli evoke memories of home. It links the fields of memory studies, tourism, and migration/diaspora studies and is of interest to students and researchers in these fields.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 284 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Migration and forced displacement are increasingly significant and influential aspects of the contemporary global landscape. These processes give rise to mobility flows, travel patterns, and touristic behavior that are shaped by personal and collective memories. The chapters in this book emphasize the crucial role of travel and tourism in facilitating the unfolding of memories and memory-based identity practices.

This book delves into the ways in which diasporic communities, transnational migrants, refugees, and internally displaced individuals create a sense of home in their host places of residence through material culture, performativity, and social connections. It also explores how involuntary tangible and intangible stimuli trigger memories of home. The book spans a wide range of geographical contexts, combining ethnographic vignettes of contemporary migrant societies with archival research that extends back over a century.

Memory, Migration, and Travel makes a unique contribution by bridging the emerging field of memory studies with the disciplines of tourism and migration/diaspora studies. It appeals to students and researchers in the fields of tourism, geography, migration/diaspora studies, anthropology, and sociology.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032339092