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On Roots and Routes

The Quest for Community in Times of Diversity and Inequality

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A friend recently invited me to a brunch to celebrate her birthday with a few other college-educated and affluent white women. We talked about the burn-out of another, absent woman, who had a demanding job that brought her to various countries every few years, resulting in her now grown children being “very international”. But “naturally”, went the tenor of the conversation, she was a candidate for burnout as she no longer had any “rootedness”.

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    Talja Blokland

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  1. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Porto, Portugal

    Lígia Ferro

  2. Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Institute of Sociology, Krakow, Poland

    Marta Smagacz-Poziemska

  3. Madrid, Spain

    M. Victoria Gómez

  4. IIGK, Univ Bielefeld IIGK, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Sebastian Kurtenbach

  5. Lisboa, Portugal

    Patrícia Pereira

  6. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociolo , Madrid, Spain

    Juan José Villalón

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Blokland, T. (2018). On Roots and Routes. In: Ferro, L., Smagacz-Poziemska, M., Gómez, M., Kurtenbach, S., Pereira, P., Villalón, J. (eds) Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18462-9_3

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