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This paper takes as its starting point the work of Adbelmalek Sayad (2004), and especially the notion of immigration as the trauma of double absence. In his influential account, Sayad (2004, p. 141) argues that migration creates a rupture and introduces disorder in the person. Sayad’s sociology of migration uses ‘double absence’ as the key to explain that immigrants who leave their home country create a social, personal and political void at home; in addition, they occupy a kind of liminal space in their host countries, where they are not full members. This metaphor of double absence is apt in capturing the dynamics of migration and its effects on belonging.
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Veikou, M., Siapera, E. (2015). Rethinking Belonging in the Era of Social Media: Migration and Presence. In: de Been, W., Arora, P., Hildebrandt, M. (eds) Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491268_7
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