Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Fran Markowitz teaches anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva, Israel. Anders H. Stefansson is research assistant at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Reviews

Homecomings is a welcome addition to the limited recent literature on return migration and homecoming experiences. ... an inspiring text that unravels the manu hidden layers of mobility, return and homeness.....
*Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies*

These studies, focusing on experiences of return migration in several continents, challenge assumptions about the relation of mobility to home. 'Homecomings' are never simply returns from exile, however, but also the unsettling of pasts and the making of futures.
*John Borneman, Princeton University*

Homecomings is a welcome addition to the limited recent literature on return migration and homecoming experiences.
... an inspiring text that unravels the manu hidden layers of mobility, return and homeness.
*Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies*