2. Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia. Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multigenerational Meanings of Return

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. 1. Introduction. Return Migration/the Returning Migrant: To What, Where and Why? 9
5. 2. Neither Necessity nor Nostalgia. Japanese-Brazilian Transmigrants and the Multigenerational Meanings of Return 25
6. 3. The Fluidity of Return. Indian Student Migrants’ Transnational Ambitions and the Meaning of Australian Permanent Residency 39
7. 4. Resident ‘Non-resident’ Indians. Gender, Labour and the Return to India 55
8. 5. ‘It’s Still Home Home’. Notions of the Homeland for Filipina Dependent Students in Ireland 73
9. 6. Looking Back while Moving Forward. Japanese Elites and the Prominence of ‘Home’ in Discourses of Settlement and Cultural Assimilation in the United States, 1890-1924 93
10. 7. Return of the Lost Generation? Search for Belonging, Identity and Home among Second- Generation Viet Kieu 115
11. 8. ‘A Xu/Sou for the Students’. A Discourse Analysis of Vietnamese Student Migration to France in the Late Colonial Period 135
12. 9. ‘The Bengali Can Return to His Desh but the Burmi Can’t Because He Has No Desh’. Dilemmas of Desire and Belonging amongst the Burmese- Rohingya and Bangladeshi Migrants in Pakistan 157
13. Contributors 179
14. Bibliography 183
15. Index 199