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 be
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 be
Lynellyn D. Long was Chief of Mission for International Migration in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Country Representative for the Population Council in Vietnam. She teaches in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ellen Oxfeld is Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College.
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Introduction: Toward an Ethnography of Return —Ellen Oxfeld and Lynellyn Long PART I: IMAGINED RETURN Chapter 1: Illusions of Home in the Story of a Rwandan Refugee's Return —John Janzen Chapter 2: Contemplating Repatriation to Eritrea —Lucia Ann McSpadden Chapter 3: Filipina Depictions of Migrant Life for Those at Home —Jane Margold PART II: PROVISIONAL RETURN Chapter 4: Viet Khieu on a Fast Track Back? —Lynellyn Long Chapter 5: Chinese Villagers and the Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits —Ellen Oxfeld Chapter 6: Changing Filipina Identities and Ambivalent Returns —Nicole Constable PART III: REPATRIATED RETURN Chapter 7: Returning German Jews and Questions of Identity —John Borneman Chapter 8: Repatriation and Social Class in Nicaragua —James Phillips Chapter 9: Refugee Returns to Sarajevo and Their Challenge to Contemporary Narratives of Mobility —Anders H. Stefansson Chapter 10: The Making of a Good Citizen in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement —Laura Hammond Chapter 11West Indian Migrants and their Rediscovery of Barbados —George Gmelch Chapter 12: An Historical Exploration of "Coming Home" from Central Africa —David Newbury Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward an Ethnography of Return —Ellen Oxfeld and Lynellyn Long PART I: IMAGINED RETURN Chapter 1: Illusions of Home in the Story of a Rwandan Refugee's Return —John Janzen Chapter 2: Contemplating Repatriation to Eritrea —Lucia Ann McSpadden Chapter 3: Filipina Depictions of Migrant Life for Those at Home —Jane Margold PART II: PROVISIONAL RETURN Chapter 4: Viet Khieu on a Fast Track Back? —Lynellyn Long Chapter 5: Chinese Villagers and the Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits —Ellen Oxfeld Chapter 6: Changing Filipina Identities and Ambivalent Returns —Nicole Constable PART III: REPATRIATED RETURN Chapter 7: Returning German Jews and Questions of Identity —John Borneman Chapter 8: Repatriation and Social Class in Nicaragua —James Phillips Chapter 9: Refugee Returns to Sarajevo and Their Challenge to Contemporary Narratives of Mobility —Anders H. Stefansson Chapter 10: The Making of a Good Citizen in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement —Laura Hammond Chapter 11West Indian Migrants and their Rediscovery of Barbados —George Gmelch Chapter 12: An Historical Exploration of "Coming Home" from Central Africa —David Newbury Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments
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