Emigrant homecomings

The return movement of emigrants, 1600-2000
Herausgeber: Harper, Marjory

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Produktbeschreibung

Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780719070716
• ISBN-10: 0719070716
• Artikelnr.: 34010685

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Marjory Harper Section 1: Overviews of return 2.
Emigrants returning: the evolution of a tradition - Mark Wyman 3. 'Come
back Paddy Reilly': aspects of Irish return migration, 1600-1845 - Patrick
Fitzgerald Section 2: Motives of return migrants 4. Children of the
diaspora: the 'homecoming' of the second generation Scot in the seventeenth
century - Steve Murdoch 5. Running home from Australia: intercontinental
mobility and migrant expectations in the nineteenth century - Eric Richards
6. 'My wayward heart': homesickness, longing and the return of British
post-war immigrants from Australia - Alistair Thomson 7. Roots tourism as
return movement: semantics and the Scottish diaspora - Paul Basu Section 3:
Mechanisms of return 8. 'Settling down': masculinity, class and the rite of
return in a transnational community - Bruce S. Elliott 9. Canada in
Britain: returned migrants and the Canada Club - Kathleen Burke 10. 'Two
homes now': the return migration of the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf -
Marilyn J. Barber Section 4: The impact of return 11. Returning to
Belhelvie, 1593-1875: the impact of return migration on an Aberdeenshire
parish - Alexia Grosjean 12. The Highlands and the returning nabob: Sir
Hector Munro of Novar, 1760-1807 - Andrew Mackillop Index