No Place Like Home

Ilaria Boncori
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Ilaria Boncori: University of Essex

Chapter 8 in Expatriates in China, 2013, pp 152-159 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In cultural anthropology the term ‘liminality’ refers to a transitional or indeterminate state between stages of a person’s life, which may be culturally defined. Liminality can also manifest itself in terms of spaces. I asked my interviewees if they had felt at home in China and what ‘home’ means for them. Ahmed (1999: 330) suggests that home is not a building but the place where people deal with the intricacies of their ‘belonging’ in relation to their surroundings both in a physical and emotional way.

Keywords: Host Country; Social Identity; Cultural Identity; Cultural Anthropology; Identity Work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137293473_8

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