Exile and return among the East Timorese /
Amanda Wise.
- 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Contemporary ethnography .
- Contemporary ethnography. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
Introduction : "we can't hang Xanana there!" : on the politics of representing community -- East Timor : a history of the present -- Leaving the crocodile : the East Timorese community in Sydney -- Nation, transnation, diaspora : locating East Timorese long distance nationalism -- Embodying exile : embodied memory and the role of trauma, affect, politics, and religion in the formation of identities in exile -- Locating East Timoreseness in Australia : layers of hybridity, anchored and enmeshed -- From exile to diaspora? : on identity, belonging, and the (im)possibility of return home -- Conclusion : independence day : looking to the future -- Afterword : January 2005. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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Political refugees--Timor-Leste Exiles--Timor-Leste Exiles--Social conditions--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.) Timorese--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.) Return migration--Timor-Leste Political refugees--Social conditions--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)