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... This chapter examines the production of subjectivities through which returning Filipinos uneasily straddle the interstitial space between their new and former lives as they make the choice to repatriate into Philippine society. The construction of nostalgic space within various tourism...

.... This chapter articulates a framework for conceptualizing the productive economies sustained by the “repeated turning” of Filipinos in the diaspora who seek to maintain their relationship with their homeland in ways that materialize in “returns.” balikbayan return migration modernity globalization ...

... to entice Filipinos to return and ultimately repatriate back to their homeland. balikbayans return migration crime tourism This chapter examines the spaces produced by Filipinos returning to the Philippines, specifically the balikbayans’ homes, where specific memories of being Filipino during...

... attendant continued racism and injustices in public fashion. It then considers post-1965 Black return migrations to the U.S. South and how these travelers within the United States have either forged separatist communities or invented their African selves as is enacted by the nearby Gullah sea island culture...

... the broken, decentered legacies of slavery, “ruptured by a turbulent history and the traumas of migration, and unsettled by the ‘play’ of nostalgia and desire that haunts every ‘return,’ real or symbolic.” slavery afterlives of slavery art ...

... experienced when she returned in the early 1960s, and the civil rights work and movement colleagues Rosemarie joined in the South. Starkville Georgia Great Migration Albany Movement lynching southern cultural traditions ...

... This chapter analyzes waiting as a form of work and an essential condition that enables and perpetuates transnational migration. It situates remittances as a particular form of money with a future-oriented temporality, functioning not only as pure money but also as gifts. It shows that, while...

... This chapter considers the post‒civil rights migration of expatriates to Ghana, which has welcomed Black Americans “home” since Kwame Nkrumah led the nation to its independence from the British in 1957. Through ethnographic, literary, and filmic analyses, this chapter investigates contemporary...

..., whereas in Benin and Nigeria they return with money or a motorcycle. They also like the adventure and the freedom from familial obligation that comes with living far from home. youth migration child trafficking Benin Nigeria gender ...

... repetitive migration, leading to a spatial division: South Korea as a place for making money and Yanbian as a place for spending it. The chapter details how, under these split spatial practices, migrants have internalized a back-and-forth rhythm that serves as a governing force on the laboring body, thereby...

... work occupied” and articulating the broken, decentered legacies of slavery, “ruptured by a turbulent history and the traumas of migration, and unsettled by the ‘play’ of nostalgia and desire that haunts every ‘return,’ real or symbolic.” slavery afterlives of slavery art ...

... The family of the poet Eduardo Mitre migrated from Palestine to the Bolivian altiplano in the 1930s. Mitre was born in Oruro in 1943 and grew up in Cochabamba. During the Hugo Banzer Suárez and Luis García Meza dictatorships, he went abroad, studying and living in Europe and the United States...

...). The chapter details the violence that sent the family north during the Great Migration, the sense of homecoming Rosemarie experienced when she returned in the early 1960s, and the civil rights work and movement colleagues Rosemarie joined in the South. Starkville Georgia Great Migration Albany...

... the Middle Passage, the chapter links cultural lore such as the Flying African myth to the early twentieth century’s Great Migration and other movements that Black Americans have undertaken throughout the nation and abroad in response to their alienation within the United States. It also thinks through...

... as domestics (girls). NGOs consider these cross-border migrations “child trafficking” because youth are often seduced into going by the promises of devious middlemen and because their labor is hyper-exploited. But student research discovered that youth in these villages largely go of their own volition and see...