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When displacement creates impossible real estate fantasies

I catch myself googling property prices in cities near where I grew up, as if I could somehow buy my way back to a place that exists only in my memory.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic thinking provides false comfort by suggesting that what was lost through violence could be recovered through commerce.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief for lost homeland — diaspora mourning?”

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