Coming Home?: Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed Behind

Book Overview

Few things weigh on the human spirit more heavily than a sense of place; the lands we live in and return to have a profound ability to shape our notions of home and homeland, not to mention our own identities. The pull of the familiar and the desire to begin anew are conflicting impulses for the nearly 180 million people who live outside their countries of origin, often with the expectation of returning home. Of 30 million people who immigrated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218582
• ISBN13: 9780812218589
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"