Coming Home? : : Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind / / ed. by Lynellyn D. Long, Ellen Oxfeld.

• MitwirkendeR: Borneman, John,; Constable, Nicole,; Gmelch, George,; Hammond, Laura,; Janzen, John,; Long, Lynellyn D.,; Margold, Jane A.,; McSpadden, Lucia Ann,; Oxfelcf, Ellen,; Oxfeld, Ellen,; Phillips, James,; Stefansson, Anders H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Long, Lynellyn D.,; Oxfeld, Ellen,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Few things weigh on the human spirit more heavily than a sense of place; the lands we live in and return to have a profound ability to shape our notions of home and homeland, not to mention our own identities. The pull of the familiar and the desire to begin anew are conflicting impulses for the nea...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: An Ethnography of Return
• Part I. Imagined Return
• Chapter 1. Illusions of Home in the Story of a Rwandan Refugee's Return
• Chapter 2. Contemplating Repatriation to Eritrea
• Chapter 3. Filipina Depictions of Migrant Life for Their Kin at Home
• Part II. Provisional Return
• Chapter 4. Viet Kieu on a Fast Track Back?
• Chapter 5. Chinese Villagers and the Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits
• Chapter 6. Changing Filipina Identities and Ambivalent Returns
• Part III. Repatriated Return
• Chapter 7. Returning German Jews and Questions of Identity
• Chapter 8. Repatriation and Social Class in Nicaragua
• Chapter 9. Refugee Returns to Sarajevo and Their Challenge to Contemporary Narratives of Mobility
• Chapter 10. The Making of a Good Citizen in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement
• Chapter 11. West Indian Migrants and Their Rediscovery of Barbados
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments