'Diverse Mobilities': Second-Generation Greek-Germans Engage with the Homeland as Children and as Adults
'Diverse Mobilities': Second-Generation Greek-Germans Engage with the Homeland as Children and as Adults
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DOI：
10.1080/17450101.2011.603943
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Ahrens, Jill
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作者：
King, Russell;Christou, Anastasia;Ahrens, Jill
这篇论文是关于希腊移民在德国的子女。我们专注于第二代“回归”的两个生命阶段：年幼的孩子在假期被带到希腊或被送回更长时间，以及作为年轻人行使独立的“回归”移民。我们既参考文献，也实地采访了50位第一代和第二代希腊裔德国人。我们发现，将幼童送回希腊的做法非常普遍，但鲜有文献记载。成年人回到父母的家园有五个原因：(i)“寻找自我”；（ii）希腊生活方式的吸引力；（iii）由第二代而不是第一代实现“回归的家庭叙事”；（iv）人生阶段的大事，如上大学或嫁给希腊人；(v)逃离创伤性事件或压迫性家庭状况。然而，回归往往带来困难、幻灭、身份重新评估以及对德国背景的重新评估。
This paper is about the children of Greek labour migrants in Germany. We focus on two life-stages of 'return' for this second generation: as young children brought to Greece on holidays or sent back for longer periods, and as young adults exercising an independent 'return' migration. We draw both on literature and on our own field interviews with 50 first-and second-generation Greek-Germans. We find the practise of sending young children back to Greece to have been surprisingly widespread yet little documented. Adult relocation to the parental homeland takes place for five reasons: (i) a 'search for self'; (ii) attraction of the Greek way of life; (iii) the actualisation of the 'family narrative of return' by the second, rather than the first, generation; (iv) life-stage events such as going to university or marrying a Greek; (v) escape from a traumatic event or oppressive family situation. Yet the return often brings difficulties, disillusionment, identity reappraisal, and a re-evaluation of the German context.