Although the question of return has certainly received scholarly attention in the past, we're only beginning to understand the changing dynamics of migration in an age of transnationalism. However, the contributions in this volume go beyond the simple observation that the idea migrants have of 'returning home' must be changing because of globalization and transnationalism, and examine how these developments shape the way migration trajectories are experienced and given meaning to. The range of papers is diverse both in terms of regional focus as well as migrants' backgrounds, ambitions and opportunities but manage to complement each other in such a way that the assemblage produces new and highly important insights as well as questions for future research.
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- "This edited volume's chapters are well crafted essays that provide a rich body of ethnographic and historical data." - Josephine Smart, Pacific Affairs
Foreword
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1 Introduction
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Return Migration/the Returning Migrant: To What, Where and Why?
Michiel Baas
2 Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia
25
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Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multigenerational Meanings of Return
Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer
3 The Fluidity of Return
39
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Indian Student Migrants' Transnational Ambitions and the Meaning of Australian Permanent Residency
Michiel Baas
4 Resident `Non-resident' Indians
55
(18)
Gender, Labour and the Return to India
Amy Bhatt
5 `It's Still Home Home'
73
(20)
Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland
Diane Sabenacio Nititham
6 Looking Back while Moving Forward
93
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Japanese Elites and the Prominence of `Home' in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924
Helen Kaibara
7 Return of the Lost Generation?
115
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Search for Belonging, Identity and Home among Second-Generation Viet Kieu
Priscilla Koh
8 `A Xu/Sou for the Students'
135
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A Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Student Migration to France in the Late Colonial Period
Cindy A. Nguyen
9 `The Bengali Can Return to His Desh but the Burmi Can't Because He Has No Desh'
157
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Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese-Rohingya and Bangladeshi Migrants in Pakistan
Nausheen H. Anwar
Contributors
179
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Bibliography
183
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Index
199
Michiel Baas is a research fellow with the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
