The article discusses their role and meaning through the material flows between women migrants from Dhërmi/Drimades and their husbands who stay behind in their natal village in southern Albania. Material flows are not only emblems but also agents of migrant worlds as they contribute to the formation of transnational marriages that are necessary for the construction of material flows. Material flows form a part of reciprocal relations as they preserve and reconstruct marriage and social relationships in general. They act as insurance policies and reassure dwelling and dynamic presence of absent women migrants.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33252397
This chapter of an edited volume illustrates and explain how villagers and scholars negotiate and contest the past of Himarë/Himara in southern Albania and reconstruct their sense of place, which they seek to situate on a historical and geopolitical map of nation-states. The nation-state is conceptualised as a solid entity, which has always divided people according to their language, territory, and national belonging. The content of this chapter argues that Himarë/Himara is not merely a physical place but also a “historiographical topos”, the subject of several negotiations and claims over the area’s past and present.
COBISS.SI-ID: 32892205