Paperback. "Frankness and insight." New West India GuideWhat happens when people return to the land of their birth after decades away? The migrants' journey is a well-told story but much less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is it like to be back home? Home Again is a collection of contemporary real-life stories by men and women who have returned to Dominica. Their feelings and experiences, expressed in their own words, link the challenges of the past to both the positive aspects of return a sense of belonging and well-being and also to its difficulties of rejection and frustration.Compelling, moving and intensely personal, Home Again, is a revealing insight into the lives of these pioneering migrants. The migrants' journey is a well-told story, but much less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is it like to be back home? Here are real life stories of those who have left, and returned to, Dominica. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return (Paperback)
Publisher: Papillote Press, London
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0953222454
ISBN 13: 9780953222452
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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The migrants' journey is a well-told story but much less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is it like to be back home? Home Again is a collection of contemporary real-life stories by men and women who have returned to Dominica.

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Celia Sorhaindo is the co-compiler of Home Again. She was born in Dominica and left with her family for England in 1976. She returned to Dominica in 2005 and is currently a freelance photographer and poet. Her first collection of poetry will be published in 2020.

Polly Pattullo is the publisher of Papillote Press, a former journalist and author.

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