Return Migration of the Next Generations: 21st Century Transnational Mobility - Hardcover

Conway, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754673731 ISBN 13: 9780754673736

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Return migration has recently been 're-discovered' as a significant emerging dimension of today's global migration patterns. It is no longer the forgotten or overlooked dimension in international circuits of emigration and immigration. It is no longer disparaged as the mobility response of the unsuccessful, the failed immigrant, or the retired. Going beyond examinations of the return of first-generation, elderly, international migrants whose return to their source communities on retirement has dominated the literature to date, this important book expands the research frontier into the realms of the one-and-a half and second-generations and new cohorts of youthful global contract workers and 'prolonged sojourners', and examines their return and its consequences.

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Return Migration of the Next Generations Return migration has been 're-discovered' as a significant dimension of global migration patterns. This book expands the research frontier into the realms of the one-and-a half and second-generations and the cohorts of youthful global contract workers and 'prolonged sojourners', and examines their return and its consequences. Full description

Review

'This collection challenges the paradigms of migration studies by highlighting the role of second and one-and-a half generation return migrants. Their diverse experiences, from across the globe, introduce a vital new dimension into our understanding of the continuing dynamism and complexity of contemporary migration, with important implications for policy makers globally.' Mary Chamberlain, Oxford Brookes University, UK 'The task of bringing globally diverse material to bear on the compelling but overlooked topic of contemporary return migration is executed deftly by this collection of international scholars who articulate different theoretical and disciplinary persuasions in interpreting complex patterns of social change. The volume will be invaluable to those who care about the deepening transnationalisation of society and all this means for poverty, cultural change, geopolitics, and development.' Adrian Bailey, University of Leeds, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0754673731
• ISBN 13: 9780754673736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Potter Robert B.