Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In recent decades, the term mobility has emerged as a defining paradigm within the humanities. For scholars engaged in the multidisciplinary topics and perspectives now often embraced by the term Pacific Studies, it has been a much more longstanding and persistent concern. Even so, specific questions regarding mobilities of return that is, the movement of people back to places that are designated, however ambiguously or ambivalently, as home have tended to take a back seat within more recent discussions of mobility, transnationalism and migration. This volume situates return mobility as a starting point for understanding the broader context and experience of human mobility, community and identity in the Pacific region and beyond. Through diverse case studies spanning the Pacific region, it demonstrates the extent to which the prospect and practice of returning home, or of navigating returns between multiple homes, is a central rather than peripheral component of contemporary Pacific Islander mobilities and identities everywhere.

Population geography --- Return migration --- E-books --- Migration, Return --- Emigration and immigration --- Repatriation --- Demography --- Human geography

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Europeans --- Immigrants --- Return migration --- History. --- United States --- History --- Emigration and immigration --- Europe --- Migration, Return --- Repatriation --- Ethnology --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Few things weigh on the human spirit more heavily than a sense of place; the lands we live in and return to have a profound ability to shape our notions of home and homeland, not to mention our own identities. The pull of the familiar and the desire to begin anew are conflicting impulses for the nearly 180 million people who live outside their countries of origin, often with the expectation of returning home. Of 30 million people who immigrated to the United States alone between 1900 and 1980, 10 million are believed to have returned to their homelands.While migration flows occur in both directions, surprisingly few studies of transnationalism, global migration, or diaspora address return experiences. Undertaking a comparative analysis of how coming home affects individuals and their communities in a myriad cultural and geographic settings, the contributors to this volume seek to understand the unique return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as they confront the social pressures and a sense of displacement that accompany their journeys.The returns depicted in Coming Home? range from temporary visits to permanent repatriation, from voluntary to coerced movements, and from those occurring after a few years of exile to those after several decades away. The geographic sites include the Balkans, Barbados, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Germany, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Rwanda, and Vietnam. Several studies portray the experiences of returning refugees who earlier fled war and violence, while others focus on economic or labor migrants.As the essays show, connections between permanent returnees and home communities are contentious and complex. On the one hand, issues of land title, property rights, political orientation, and religious and cultural beliefs and practices create grounds for clashes between returnees and their home communities, but on the other, returnees bring with them a unique ability to transform local practices and provide new resources.

Return migration --- Migration de retour --- Case studies. --- Cas, Etudes de --- #SBIB:39A6 --- Migration, Return --- Emigration and immigration --- Repatriation --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Anthropology. --- Folklore. --- Linguistics.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the ""refugee cycle"" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped, would become the ""decade of repatriation."" However, although over nine million refugees were repatriated worldwide between 1991 and 1995, there are reasons to believe that it will not necessarily be a durable solution for refugees. It certainly has become clear that ""the end of the refugee cycle""

Refugees. --- Repatriation. --- Return migration. --- Réfugiés --- Rapatriement --- Migration de retour --- Réfugiés --- Expatriés --- Migration [Return ] --- Personnes déplacées --- Personnes réfugiées --- Repatriation --- Repatriement --- Repatriëring --- Terugkeer (Migratie) --- Refugees --- Return migration --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Mollie Gerver considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawing on original interviews with 172 refugees before and after repatriation, she resolves six moral puzzles arising from repatriation using the methods of analytical philosophy to provide a more ethical framework.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social ethics --- Migration. Refugees --- Repatriation --- Repatriation. --- Return migration --- Return migration. --- Refugees --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Migration, Return --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration law --- International law --- Refoulement