Return migration has recently been 're-discovered' as a significant emerging dimension of today's global migration patterns. It is no longer the forgotten or overlooked dimension in international circuits of emigration and immigration. It is no longer disparaged as the mobility response of the unsuccessful, the failed immigrant, or the retired. Going beyond examinations of the return of first-generation, elderly, international migrants whose return to their source communities on retirement has dominated the literature to date, this important book expands the research frontier into the realms of the one-and-a half and second-generations and new cohorts of youthful global contract workers and 'prolonged sojourners', and examines their return and its consequences.

Return migration has recently been 're-discovered' as a significant emerging dimension of today's global migration patterns. It is no longer the forgotten or overlooked dimension in international circuits of emigration and immigration. It is no longer disparaged as the mobility response of the unsuccessful, the failed immigrant, or the retired. Going beyond examinations of the return of first-generation, elderly, international migrants whose return to their source communities on retirement has dominated the literature to date, this important book expands the research frontier into the realms of the one-and-a half and second-generations and new cohorts of youthful global contract workers and 'prolonged sojourners', and examines their return and its consequences.