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Title

Emigrant homecomings : the return movement of emigrants, 1600-2000 / edited by Marjory Harper.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Harper, Marjory.

Description

xi, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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. In twelve essays, 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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Return migration > Europe
• Return migration > Great Britain
• Return migration > Ireland

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

0719070708 (cased)

LCCN

9780719070709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library