Homecomings: Unsettling Paths of Return

by Ruth Behar and Fran Markowitz

Book Overview

Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research. Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson destabilize the key oppositions and the key terminologies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739109529
• ISBN13: 9780739109526
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"