Emigrant homecomings: The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000 (Studies in Imperialism, 55) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719070716 ISBN 13: 9780719070716

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Emigrant homecomings addresses the significant but neglected issue of return migration to Britain and Europe since 1600. While emigration studies have become prominent in both scholarly and popular circles in recent years, return migration has remained comparatively under-researched, despite evidence that in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between a quarter and a third of all emigrants from many parts of Britain and Europe ultimately returned to their countries of origin. Emigrant homecomings analyses the motives, experiences and impact of these returning migrants in a wide range of locations over four hundred years, as well as examining the mechanisms and technologies which enabled their return.

The book examines the multiple identities that migrants adopted and the huge range and complexity of homecomers’ motives and experiences. It also dissects migrants' perception of ‘home’ and the social, economic, cultural and political change that their return engendered.

About this title

About the Author:

Marjory Harper is Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0719070716
• ISBN 13: 9780719070716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Harper Marjory