This search for home emerges from individual yearnings born in the dialectical
alternation of feeling at home and homelessness, nursed by collective
memories, and commoditized and celebrated from within the global cultural
supermarket; it is pushed into practical action by the discourses and policies
of nation-states. These state policies legitimize narratives of nostalgia; they
spatialize mythico-historical homelands within their sovereign territory and
offer the incentives to return . . . if not the ships . . . or airplanes to do so.24