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Visit, Separation, and Deconstructing Nostalgia: Russian Students Travel to Their Old Home

LOMSKY-FEDER, EDNA, RAPOPORT, TAMAR·2000·Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
DOI 10.1177/089124100129023819
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The article theorizes the disruptive nature of immigrants' visit to the native home in terms of temporality and space. Such a disruption demands that immigrants reevaluate their relationships to the old home. Probing visiting tales elicited from immigration stories, the authors discuss how separation from the old home is effectuated during visits to the native home through the simultaneous and contrary processes of (1) linking up with the familiar, (2) distancing from the old home, and (3) appraising personal change in the new home. The authors conclude that these processes deconstruct the personal and cultural sources that cultivate a sense of nostalgia. This article argues that such diffusion or conversely the nurturing of nostalgia is context bound. The immigration stories were gathered by in-depth interviews conducted with forty-three university students who immigrated to Israel from the former USSR in the “big wave” in the 1990s.

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  • When people feel lonely they tend to get nostalgic.

    “When people feel lonely they tend to get nostalgic as the past acts as a”

    From How personal nostalgia influences giving to charity (2011) · cites this paper as Lomsky-Feder and Rapoport, 2000

  • Personal nostalgia helps to alleviate feelings of loneliness.

    “It also helps to alleviate feelings of loneliness (Lomsky-Feder and Rapoport, 2000).”

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Authors
LOMSKY-FEDER, E., & RAPOPORT, T.
Affiliations
  • Hebrew University
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Venue
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2000-02
Volume
29
Issue
1
Pages
32-57
ISSN
  • 0098-3039 (ISSN-L)
  • 0891-2416
  • 1552-5414
DOI
10.1177/089124100129023819
OpenAlex
W1981111907
Cited by
33
References
27
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
FWCI
4.89
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Memory, History, Trauma, Identity
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
Keywords
nostalgia, separation from home, temporality, spatial displacement, immigrant identity, personal transformation, former Soviet Union immigrants, immigrant narratives, home and belonging

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