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Translocal Geographies
spaces, places, connections
Edited by
KaTherine BricKell
University of London, UK
ayona DaTTa
London School of Economics, UK
First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Translocal geographies : spaces, places, connections.
1. Acculturation--Case studies. 2. Emigration and
immigration--Social aspects--Case studies. 3. Ethnic
neighborhoods--Case studies. 4. Social ecology.
I. Brickell, Katherine. II. Datta, Ayona.
304.8-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brickell, Katherine.
Translocal geographies : spaces, places, connections / by Katherine Brickell and Ayona
Datta.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7838-0 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9654-4
(ebook) 1. Human geography--Cross-cultural studies. 2. Migration, Internal--Cross-cul -
tural studies. 3. Neighborhoods--Cross-cultural studies. I. Datta, Ayona. II. Title.
GF41.B776 2010
304.2'3--dc22
2010036351
ISBN: 978-0-754-67838-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-54991-0 (ebk)
contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
PArT 1: InTroDuCTIon: TrAnSLoCAL GeoGrAPhIeS
1 introduction: Translocal Geographies 3
Katherine Brickell and Ayona Datta
PArT 2: TrAnSLoCAL SPACeS: home AnD FAmILy
2 Translocal Geographies of ‘home’ in siem reap, cambodia 23
Katherine Brickell
3 Translocal Family relations amongst the lahu in northern Thailand 39
Brian A.L. Tan and Brenda S.A. Yeoh
4 British Families Moving home: Translocal Geographies of return
Migration from singapore 55
Madeleine E. Hatfield (née Dobson)
PArT 3: TrAnSLoCAL neIGhBourhooDS
5 Translocal Geographies of london: Belonging and ‘otherness’
among polish Migrants after 2004 73
Ayona Datta
6 ‘you wouldn’t know what’s in there would you?’
Homeliness and ‘Foreign’ Signs in Ashfield, Sydney 93
Amanda Wise
7 Ways out of crisis in Buenos aires: Translocal landscapes and the
activation of Mobile resources 109
Ryan Centner
vi Translocal Geographies
PArT 4: urBAn TrAnSLoCALITIeS: SPACeS, PLACeS,
ConneCTIonS
8 Fear of small Distances: home associations in Douala,
Dar es salaam and london 127
Ben Page
9 Translocal spatial Geographies: Multi-sited encounters of Greek
Migrants in athens, Berlin, and new york 145
Anastasia Christou
10 Translocality in Washington, D.c. and addis ababa: spaces and
linkages of the ethiopian Diaspora in Two capital cities 163
Elizabeth Chacko
PArT 5: ePILoGue
11 Translocality: A Critical Reflection 181
Michael Peter Smith
Bibliography 199
Index 223
list of Figures
2.1 channery’s picture of her mobile phone 30
2.2 yan’s picture of his daughter on the internet 33
2.3 piseth’s picture of his garden feature 34
2.4 Dith’s picture of notre Dame 37
3.1 approximate location of research areas 40
4.1 ‘My house in england’ [amy] 65
4.2 ‘This Buddah [sic] head is probably the most treasured possession
from singapore.’ [andrea] 67
5.1 Karol’s picture of his car rear windscreen in australia, in which
he travelled across the country 80
5.2 Dawid’s picture of his neighbourhood in east london 88
6.1 Typical Ashfield shops 95
6.2 The shop window referred to in the vignette below 101
7.1 madero½week at opera Bay 119
7.2 la city, seen from opera Bay
(with World Bank in the crown of largest visible skyscraper) 120
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list of contributors
Katherine Brickell is British academy postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of
Geography, royal holloway, University of london. she is currently working on
a three-year project entitled ‘Geographies of Transition in the Mekong region:
Gender, labour and Domestic life in cambodia and Vietnam’ (research which
has been extended to laos). Katherine has published her work in a number of
international refereed journals including Geoforum; Antipode; Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture & Society; Progress in Development Studies; and Journal of
Development Studies.
ryan Centner is assistant professor of sociology at Tufts University. his
research focuses primarily on latin american cities and processes of socio-
spatial change as they relate to citizenship struggles, planning interventions, and
political-economic shifts. he is currently conducting a comparative project about
the intersection of geopolitics, conflicts over local identity representation, and
landscape redevelopment in Buenos aires, rio de Janeiro, and istanbul. his work
has appeared in the journals City & Community, Local Environment, New Global
Studies, Political Power & Social Theory, and the International Journal of Urban
& Regional Research.
elizabeth Chacko is associate professor of Geography and international affairs
at the George Washington University in Washington, D.c. her research focuses
on migration, transnationalism and how immigrants modify and affect cities
and spaces within them. she has worked on these aspects particularly with the
ethiopian and asian indian immigrant populations in the United states. elizabeth
has published her work in international journals such as The Journal of Immigrant
and Refugee Studies, Journal of Cultural Geography, GeoJournal, Openhouse
International, The Geographical Review, Social Science & Medicine, Gender and
Development and Health & Place.
Anastasia Christou is lecturer in cultural Geography at the University of sussex.
she has been research Fellow of the three year ahrc funded project ‘cultural
Geographies of counter-Diasporic Migration: The second Generation returns
“home”’ under the Diasporas, Migration and identities programme (2007-2009)
affiliated with the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. She has published widely
on issues of migration and return migration; the second generation and ethnicity;
space and place; transnationalism and identity; culture and memory; gender and
feminism; home and belonging. her recent book Narratives of Place, Culture
