Mobility and Sense of Place:The Perception and Practice of Home Among the"Dongbeiren(东北人)in Xishuangbanna"
Since the 1990s,influenced by the wave of globalization,Dongbeiren have increasingly become a group characterized by"mobility"as the norm.They do not identify one place as the destination of migration,but seek their ideal life by constantly moving.It is found that"Sense of mobility in a place",which is a mixture of different types of place sense,has become an important strategy for Dongbeiren when they migrate,and also makes it possible for them to construct their identity and seek for the home of their spiritual in the new place.Mobility has broken the fixed space of home.Dongbeiren who have moved out participate in the reproduction of local meanings,thereby constructing cultural and social meanings that meet their own needs,and generating an individual imagination of"home"in the place they have moved to.No matter how or where they migrate,home is always with them,and the mobility of the home has also become a new understanding of home in human society.
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