Roots and Routes

How do people shape a life in exile? What does nation or homeland mean in such a life situation, and how is the inevitable social and moral turbulence – embedded in the migrant’s biography – employed and interpreted by the migrant herself? This book addresses these issues through an imaginative analysis of five life stories as presented by Hungarian women living in Sweden. The author shows that exile stories revolve around rescuing and restoring things from the past, around reinventing the conce