Return migration of the next generations : 21st century transnational mobility / edited by Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter. - xvii, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Return of the next generations: transnational migration and development in the 21st century / Second-Generation Return Migrant Experiences -- 'It was not quite what I had expected': some Samoan returnees' experiences of Samoa / The ambivalence of return: 2nd-generation Tongan returnees / The return of Japanese-Brazilian next-generations: their post-1980s experiences in Japan / Bajan-Brit 2nd-generation return migration: where am I supposed to be - in mid air?!' / Emulating the homeland - engendering the nation: agency / Young and Youthful Return Migrant Experiences -- Back to Hong Kong: return migration or transnational sojourn? / Bittersweet home? Return migration and health work in Polynesia / Returning youthful Trinidadian migrants: prolonged sojourners' transnational experiences / Returning youthful nationals to Australia: brain gain or brain circulation? / Theoretical Generalizations -- Return of the next generations: transnational mobilities, family demographics and experiences, multi-local spaces / Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter -- Cluny Macpherson and La'avasa Macpherson -- Helen Lee -- Eunice Akemi Ishikawa -- Robert B. Potter and Joan Phillips -- belonging, identity and gender in 2nd-generation Greek-American return-migrant life stories, Anastasia Christou -- David Ley and Audrey Kobayashi -- John Connell -- Dennis Conway, Robert B. Potter and Godfrey St. Bernard -- Graeme Hugo -- Dennis Conway and Robert B. Potter. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

"There is renewed interest in return migration among researchers of global movement patterns. Until recently, it was overlooked, regarded as the result of failure by emigrants, or related to the return of retired, elderly migrants. This important study looks at the one-and-a-half and second generation migrants, the youthful contract workers and the 'prolonged sojourners' and the consequences of their return to source communities."--Publisher.

0754673731 9780754673736

2009005309


Return migration--Case studies
Transnationalism--Case studies
Emigration and immigration--Case studies

JV6101 / .R48 2009

304.8