Emigrant homecomings: The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000

Emigrant homecomings: The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000
ISBN-10
1526119641
ISBN-13
9781526119643
Category
History
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2017-03-01
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Author
Marjory Harper

Description

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.

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