Sweet Home Chicago? Mexican Migration and the Question of Belonging and Return (Paperback)

Paperback. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she examines transformations of belonging and the wider economic, political, social and cultural frameworks that shape them. Against the backdrop of debates on integration, transnationalism and belonging, the study explores why migrants keep and form attachments to and detachments from places, people and cultures. How do intentions of migrants to go back change over time? Focusing on elderly Mexicans in Chicago, this book explores issues of migration, home making and belonging in the context of global labour mobility. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.