In:
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress), Vol. 16, No. 1-2 ( 2012-03), p. 234-242
Abstract:
In February 2004, in preparation for the publication of our co-edited volume, Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return, Anders H. Stefansson conducted a search of book titles on Amazon.com. That search revealed 7,575 titles under the subject heading of “immigration/emigration.” Of these, a mere 157, or 2%, reappeared in the “return migration” category. Some five years later, I replicated that search. This time, 19,700 titles were listed under immigration/emigration, and 20% (4,027) of these turned up as publications about return migration. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, from an under-researched curious footnote, return migration has transmogrified into a “clearly recognized . . . significant global phenomenon” (Brettell 2006, 989). Anthropologists and sociologists, storytellers, statisticians, economists, and political analysts have delved into, and are researching and writing about the return of diasporic people(s) to their ancestral homelands.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1044-2057
,
1911-1568
DOI:
10.3138/diaspora.16.1-2.234
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Publication Date:
2012
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2093489-0
SSG:
25
SSG:
3,4
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