Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review motivational factors driving migration return
by assessing both push and pull factors that influence return intentions. The study aims to …

Despite long-standing recognition that variations exist between people's experiences of
time, and that time is central to the framing of social life and bureaucratic systems, migration …

Bringing together a wide range of original empirical research from locations and
interconnected geographical contexts from Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and …

It is common for members of the second generation to have nostalgic relations with their
parents' place of origin, particularly if they have grown up in strong transnational social …

Christou explores the phenomenon of'return migration'in Greece through the settlement and
identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She …

Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration represents the first
comprehensive study of second-generation transnationalism, exploring the manner in which …

There is renewed interest in return migration among researchers of global movement
patterns. Until recently, it was overlooked, regarded as the result of failure by emigrants, or …

This paper introduces the notion of 'counter-diasporic migration'as the process whereby the
second generation relocates to the ancestral homeland–the birthplace of their parents. We …

This article focuses on the 'return'of second-generation Indian-American professionals from
the US to their parental homeland, India. Based on qualitative interviews with forty-eight …

The study explores the issue of transnational family relationships and return migration
among British-Caribbean second generation young people. 1 It describes how transnational …