Psychological, political, and cultural meanings of home /

Psychological, political, and cultural meanings of home / Mechthild Hart, Miriam Ben-Yoseph, editors. - New York : Haworth, c2005. - 152 p. ; 23 cm.

"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of prevention & intervention in the community, volume 30, numbers 1/2 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : shifting meanings of home / Mechthild Hart, Miriam Ben-Yoseph -- Facing aliens under globalization : changing meanings of home for Taiwanese employers of foreign domestics / Shu-Ju Ada Cheng -- Home as a locus of work and career / Lisa K. Gundry -- Convents as homes / Enrique Alberto Arias -- Where love flies free : women, home, and writing in Cook County Jail / Ann Folwell Stanford -- In the absence of home : the meaning of homelessness / Susanne M. Dumbleton -- Land of California? : the ambiguities of "Sweet Home Chicago" / John Kimsey -- The long road home : migratory experience and the construction of the self / Frida Kerner Furman -- Longing for home : displacement, memory and identity / Miriam Ben-Yoseph -- The nomad at home / Mechthild Hart.

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Home.
Home--Psychological aspects.
Home--Political aspects.
Home--Social aspects.

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