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Book Review: Emigrant homecomings: the return movement of emigrants 1600-2000

Book Review: Emigrant homecomings: the return movement of emigrants 1600-2000 cultural geographies 2006 13: 625 631 reviews in brief Emigrant homecomings: the return movement of emigrants 1600 2000. Edited by Marjory Harper. Manchester. Manchester University Press. 2005. 276 pp. £55 ISBN 0 7190 7070 8 hardback. Although studies of migration have become increasingly important within a wide range of academic disciplines and debates, the significance of return movements have, to date, received relatively little attention. While stressing this important point, Emigrant homecomings also suggests that return migrants/return movements are an integral part of the global diaspora. It is from this promising starting point that Emigrant homecomings sets out to address the significance and complexities of return migration through three key themes: motives, mechanisms and impacts. To my mind, a book that opens up discussion about return migration in these ways, particularly when it also promises to be in relation to current debates about identities and home, is a more than welcome (and overdue) addition to the migration literature. The first key theme, ‘Motives’, sees individual chapters drawing on a number of case studies which stress that the reasons why people return home are often complex. The second, ‘Mechanisms’, considers the maintenance of links between home and away through personal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: Emigrant homecomings: the return movement of emigrants 1600-2000

Gowans, Georgina
Cultural Geographies , Volume 13 (4): 2 – Oct 1, 2006
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cultural geographies 2006 13: 625 631 reviews in brief Emigrant homecomings: the return movement of emigrants 1600 2000. Edited by Marjory Harper. Manchester. Manchester University Press. 2005. 276 pp. £55 ISBN 0 7190 7070 8 hardback. Although studies of migration have become increasingly important within a wide range of academic disciplines and debates, the significance of return movements have, to date, received relatively little attention. While stressing this important point, Emigrant homecomings also suggests that return migrants/return movements are an integral part of the global diaspora. It is from this promising starting point that Emigrant homecomings sets out to address the significance and complexities of return migration through three key themes: motives, mechanisms and impacts. To my mind, a book that opens up discussion about return migration in these ways, particularly when it also promises to be in relation to current debates about identities and home, is a more than welcome (and overdue) addition to the migration literature. The first key theme, ‘Motives’, sees individual chapters drawing on a number of case studies which stress that the reasons why people return home are often complex. The second, ‘Mechanisms’, considers the maintenance of links between home and away through personal

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