Emigrant homecomings (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526119643
• Artikelnr.: 60363379

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