Emigrant homecomings: the return movement of emigrants, 1600-2000

Return migration has long been the Cinderella of diaspora studies, a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant Homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a w...

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Weitere Verfasser: Harper, Marjory (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2011
Ausgabe:First digital paperback edition
Schriftenreihe:Studies in imperialism
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Zusammenfassung:Return migration has long been the Cinderella of diaspora studies, a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant Homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four centuries
Emigrant Homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between a quarter and a third of all emigrants from many parts of Britain and Europe ultimately returned to their countries of origin. Emigrant Homecomings analyses the motives, experiences and impact of these returning migrants in a wide range of locations over four hundred years, as well as examining the mechanisms and technologies which enabled their return. The book examines the multiple identities that migrants adopted and the huge range and complexity of homecomers’ motives and experiences. It also dissects migrants' perception of ‘home’ and the social, economic, cultural and political change that their return engendered
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 276 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781526119643
9781526119650
DOI:10.7765/9781526119643

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