A collection of essays that examine the return migration experiences of refugees, migrants, and various others as they confront social pressures and sense of displacement.

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 be

Introduction: Toward an Ethnography of Return--Ellen Oxfeld and Lynellyn Long PART I: IMAGINED RETURNChapter 1: Illusions of Home in the Story of a Rwandan Refugee's Return--John JanzenChapter 2: Contemplating Repatriation to Eritrea--Lucia Ann McSpaddenChapter 3: Filipina Depictions of Migrant Life for Those at Home--Jane Margold PART II: PROVISIONAL RETURNChapter 4: Viet Khieu on a Fast Track Back?--Lynellyn LongChapter 5: Chinese Villagers and the Moral Dilemmas of Return Visits--Ellen OxfeldChapter 6: Changing Filipina Identities and Ambivalent Returns--Nicole Constable PART III: REPATRIATED RETURNChapter 7: Returning German Jews and Questions of Identity--John BornemanChapter 8: Repatriation and Social Class in Nicaragua--James PhillipsChapter 9: Refugee Returns to Sarajevo and Their Challenge to Contemporary Narratives of Mobility--Anders H. StefanssonChapter 10: The Making of a Good Citizen in an Ethiopian Returnee Settlement--Laura HammondChapter 11West Indian Migrants and their Rediscovery of Barbados--George GmelchChapter 12: An Historical Exploration of "Coming Home" from Central Africa--David Newbury IndexList of ContributorsAcknowledgments