Stef Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His research centres upon critical ethnographic investigations of home and hope with regard to nation, place and state transformation on the intersection of postwar and postsocialist change in the post-Yugoslav states.

• Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Violence, Hope and the Movement of PeopleStef Jansen and Staffan LöfvingChapter 1. Returning to Palestine: Confinement and Displacement under Israeli OccupationTobias KellyChapter 2. Troubled Locations: Return, the Life Course and Transformations of Home in Bosnia-HerzegovinaStef JansenChapter 3. The Loss of Home: From Passion to Pragmatism in CyprusPeter LoizosChapter 4. The Social Significance of Crossing State Borders: Home, Mobility and Life Paths in the Angolan-Zambian BorderlandMichael BarrettChapter 5. Strategies of Visibility and Invisibility: Rumanians and Moroccans in El Ejido, SpainSwanie PototChapter 6. A New Morning? Reoccupying Home in the Aftermath of Violence in Sri LankaSharika ThiranagamaChapter 7. Liberal Emplacement: Violence, Home and the Transforming Space of Popular Protest in Central America Staffan LöfvingPostscript: Home, Fragility and Irregulation: Reflections on Ethnographies of Im/mobilityFinn StepputatNotes on ContributorsIndex

"[A] theoretical milestone that signposts provocative new directions for scholars and students of displacement. This volume offers an exceptional critical synthesis of emergent strands of thinking about displacement while also posing new questions about how processes of 'home making, un-making, and re-making' unfold for people who must navigate the socially transformative and uncertain conditions generated by conflict and structural violence."  ·  Stephen C. Lubkemann, author of Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War