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 key oppositions and terminologies that have vexed migration studies for decades.
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1 Part I: Homecomings to the Future: From Diasporic Mythographies to Social Projects of Return 2 The Home(s) of Homecomings 3 Part II: Homecomings of Immigrants and Refugees 4 Tigrayan Returnees' Notions of Home: Five Variations on a Theme 5 Sarajevo Suffering: Homecoming and the Hierarchy of Homeland Hardship 6 Extra Hungariam non est vita? The Relationships between Hungarian Immigrants and their Homeland 7 Part III: Blurried Homes, Blurred Diaspora-Homeland Boundaries 8 Homecoming to the Diaspora: Nation and State in Visits of Israelis to Morocco 9 From the Centers to the Periphery: "Repatriation" to an Armenian Homeland in the Twentieth Century 10 When Home Is Not the Homeland: The Case of Japanese Brazilian Ethnic Return Migration 11 Promised Land, Imagined Homelands: Ethiopian Jews' Immigration to Israel 12 Part IV: Contentious Homecomings 13 Transatlantic Dreaming: Slavery, Tourism, and Diasporic Encounters 14 Leaving Babylon to Come Home to Israel: Closing the Circle of the Black Diaspora 15 While Waiting for the Ferry to Cuba: Adio Kerida and the Goodbye that Isn't a Farewell
