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Book SynopsisThe 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.
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Coming Home? offers ethnographically rich portrayals of the way the imaginings and realities of 'home' affect refugee experiences and subjectivities. . . . The volume is an important contribution to migration scholarship and an especially welcome examination of the overlooked and understudied phenomenon of return migration." *
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward an Ethnography of Return
—Ellen Oxfeld and Lynellyn Long
PART I: IMAGINED RETURN
Chapter 1: Illusions of Home in the Story of a Rwandan Refugee's Return
—John Janzen
Chapter 2: Contemplating Repatriation to Eritrea
—Lucia Ann McSpadden
Chapter 3: Filipina Depictions of Migrant Life for Those at Home
—Jane Margold
PART II: PROVISIONAL RETURN
Chapter 4: Viet Khieu on a Fast Track Back?
—Lynellyn Long
Chapter 5: Chinese Villagers and the Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits
—Ellen Oxfeld
Chapter 6: Changing Filipina Identities and Ambivalent Returns
—Nicole Constable
PART III: REPATRIATED RETURN
Chapter 7: Returning German Jews and Questions of Identity
—John Borneman
Chapter 8: Repatriation and Social Class in Nicaragua
—James Phillips
Chapter 9: Refugee Returns to Sarajevo and Their Challenge to Contemporary Narratives of Mobility
—Anders H. Stefansson
Chapter 10: The Making of a Good Citizen in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement
—Laura Hammond
Chapter 11West Indian Migrants and their Rediscovery of Barbados
—George Gmelch
Chapter 12: An Historical Exploration of "Coming Home" from Central Africa
—David Newbury
Index
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
