1 Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Contributors IX
5. List of Abbreviations XIII
6. 1 Introduction 1
7. 2 European Historical Return Migration Research. A Literature Overview 13
8. Part I: Digital Historical Remigration Studies
9. 3 Digital Historical Remigration: The Example of the South Tyrolean Return Option 39
10. 4 Remigration to Luxembourg. Examining a New Research Question by Means of Digital Hermeneutics 67
11. 5 A Historical Atlas of the South Tyrolean Option 93
12. Part II: Returnees Between National Policies and Individual Trauma
13. 6 National Narratives and Immigrant Voices: Transatlantic Return Migration to Italy and Austria, 1850–1950 115
14. 7 Colonists or Migrants? The Political Debate on Returns From the Former Colonies in Post-war Italy 143
15. 8 “The End of the World as we Know it”. Framing Settlers’ Return to Italy Within the Current International Debate 163
16. 9 The Decision-making Process and Re- Option of the South Tyrolean Optants from the Perspective of Contemporary Witnesses 179
17. Part III: Socioeconomic, Cultural and Political Aspects of Return to Rural Areas After WWII
18. 10 A Survey on Return Migration in Sicily During the Sixties 209
19. 11 On Emigrating and Returning – Five Examples From the Aosta Valley 229
20. 12 Returnees to Serbia From Abroad: Suitcases Full of Democracy 251
21. 13 The Organized Return to South Tyrol After World War II. Crossing the Border for Return Migrants, and Resettlement Assistance 273
22. 14 Return Migration in Kanaltal. Valcanale/ Kanaltal/Kanalska Dolina 1939–1950 295
23. Index 319