Description: Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson destabilize key oppositions and terminologies that have v...
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"Homecomings is a welcome addition to the limited recent literature on return migration and homecoming experiences. ... an inspiring text that unravels the manu hidden layers of mobility, return and homeness....." --Anastasia Christou, University of Sussex, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
"These studies, focusing on experiences of return migration in several continents, challenge assumptions about the relation of mobility to home. 'Homecomings' are never simply returns from exile, however, but also the unsettling of pasts and the making of futures." --John Borneman, Princeton University " Homecomings is a welcome addition to the limited recent literature on return migration and homecoming experiences. ... an inspiring text that unravels the manu hidden layers of mobility, return and homeness." --Anastasia Christou, University of Sussex, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies