3. The “Peculiar” Institution of Twenty-First- Century Puerto Rican Colonialism: “Vaivén” Return Migrations in the US Rust Belt Diaspora

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: States of Return Movement 1
4. Part I: Returns across Time
5. Introduction 17
6. 1. The Disappointments of Return: Regional Identity, Morality, and Return in Southern Spain 20
7. 2. Back to Spain? Return Migration on Stage among Aging Spaniards in France 42
8. 3. The “Peculiar” Institution of Twenty-First- Century Puerto Rican Colonialism: “Vaivén” Return Migrations in the US Rust Belt Diaspora 64
9. Part II: Community, Kin, and Care
10. Introduction 93
11. 4. Is Diasporic Return Possible? The Elusive Nature of Return and Ancestral Belonging in the Japanese and Hmong Diasporas 96
12. 5. Bolivian Mothers and the Habitus of Return: The Emotional Costs of New Beginnings 118
13. 6. The Contradictions of Transnational Care: Imaginaries and Materialities of Social Protection in Return Migration to Ghana 140
14. Part III: Regulated Return
15. Introduction 163
16. 7. Reconfiguring Home: Rural-Bound Return and Translocal Householding in Postreform China 166
17. 8. Ambivalent Nationalities: Venezuelan Migrants or Colombian Returnees? 187
18. 9. Impossible Returns: On (Not) Returning after US Immigration Detention 208
19. Conclusion: Roads to Return 227
20. Acknowledgments 241
21. About the Editors 243
22. About the Contributors 245
23. Index 249