(Self-)Editor's Note

Comment on the family entry:  I misrepresented Albanian patterns of migration by implying that Albanians find it difficult to thrive far from home for extended periods of time.  In fact, many Albanians living abroad often don’t have the opportunity to return for years and those I know have dealt with it in the manner of all somewhat reluctant and yet dignified émigrés – the resolutely stiff upper lip version of “just fine”.  It simply seems to me that these same Albanians I know place a higher premium on visiting whenever they have the money, whether that means booking a series of painfully expensive transatlantic tickets or driving all the way from the UK during school breaks.  I know Americans who can’t seem to find the time to visit children or parents living two or three hours away by car (which is more like six to eight hours in Albania, by the way).  Priorities are different.  And my Albanian family and friends leading expatriate existences always seem to have a very deep longing for Shqiperi.  There’s no other place, no other home.