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Book SynopsisReturn migration has long been 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.
Table of Contents1. Introduction - Marjory Harper
Section 1: Overviews of return
2. Emigrants returning: the evolution of a tradition - Mark Wyman
3. ‘Come back Paddy Reilly’: aspects of Irish return migration, 1600–1845 – Patrick Fitzgerald
Section 2: Motives of return migrants
4. Children of the diaspora: the ‘homecoming’ of the second generation Scot in the seventeenth century - Steve Murdoch
5. Running home from Australia: intercontinental mobility and migrant expectations in the nineteenth century - Eric Richards
6. ‘My wayward heart’: homesickness, longing and the return of British post-war immigrants from Australia - Alistair Thomson
7. Roots tourism as return movement: semantics and the Scottish diaspora - Paul Basu
Section 3: Mechanisms of return
8. ‘Settling down’: masculinity, class and the rite of return in a transnational community - Bruce S. Elliott
9. Canada in Britain: returned migrants and the Canada Club - Kathleen Burke
10. ‘Two homes now’: the return migration of the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf - Marilyn J. Barber
Section 4: The impact of return
11. Returning to Belhelvie, 1593–1875: the impact of return migration on an Aberdeenshire parish - Alexia Grosjean
12. The Highlands and the returning nabob: Sir Hector Munro of Novar, 1760–1807 - Andrew Mackillop
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