Coming home? : refugees, migrants, and those who stayed behind / edited by Lynellyn D. Long and Ellen Oxfeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Long, Lynellyn.

Oxfeld, Ellen, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Return migration--Case studies.

Return migration.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 275 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2004]

Summary:

The essays in Coming Home? examine the unique return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as they confront social pressures and sense of displacement.

Contents:

Illusions of home in the story of a Rwandan refugee's return / John Janzen

Contemplating repatriation to Eritrea / Lucia Ann McSpadden

Filipina depictions of migrant life for their kin at home / Jane A. Margold

Viet Kieu on a fast track back? / Lynellyn D. Long

Chinese villagers and the moral dilemmas of return visits / Ellen Oxfeld

Changing Filipina identities and ambivalent returns / Nicole Constable

Returning German Jews and questions of identity / John Borneman

Repatriation and social class in Nicaragua / James Phillips

Refugee returns to Sarajevo and their challenge to contemporary narratives of mobility / Anders H. Stefansson

The making of a good citizen in an Ethiopian returnee settlement / Laura Hammond

West Indian migrants and their rediscovery of Barbados / George Gmelch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-262) and index.

ISBN:

081223751X

0812218582

OCLC:

52937497