Diasporic homecomings : ethnic return migration in comparative perspective / edited by Takeyuki Tsuda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tsuda, Takeyuki.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Return migration--Cross-cultural studies.

Return migration.

Emigration and immigration--Cross-cultural studies.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent decades, increasing numbers of diasporic peoples have returned to their ethnic homelands, whether because of economic pressures, a desire to rediscover ancestral roots, or the homeland government's preferential immigration and nationality policies. Although the returnees may initially be welcomed back, their homecomings often prove to be ambivalent or negative experiences. Despite their ethnic affinity to the host populace, they are frequently excluded as cultural foreigners and relegated to low-status jobs shunned by the host society's populace. Diasporic Homecomings, the first book to provide a comparative overview of the major ethnic return groups in Europe and East Asia, reveals how the sociocultural characteristics and national origins of the migrants influence their levels of marginalization in their ethnic homelands, forcing many of them to redefine the meanings of home and homeland.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Why Does the Diaspora Return Home? The Causes of Ethnic Return Migration

2. Defining Nations in Asia and Europe

3. Contesting Ethnic Immigration

4. From Germans to Migrants

5. Imagined Homecomings

6. Ethnic “Return” Migration to Sweden

7. From National Inclusion to Economic Exclusion

8. Former Soviet Jews in Their New/Old Homeland

9. Global Inequities and Diasporic Return

10. Ethnic Hierarchy and Its Impact on Ethnic Identities

11. Brothers Only in Name

12. Finding Our Way Home

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804772068

0804772061

OCLC:

609855927