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"Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers' experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones. The narratives deal with two major themes: 1) Migrant workers' experiences in the diaspora, which for many, particularly Indonesian workers, were associated with abuse and exploitation leading to trauma; and 2) migrant workers' experiences of coming home, which include both the happy reunion with the family but also concerns about not 'fitting in' and the need to reinvent themselves because they are not who they were when they left. This is particularly true for workers whose migratory journeys have failed and who have come back to their hometowns without any financial award. Chapters also explore the major difference between Filipina and Indonesian migrant workers' overseas experiences. The Filipina returnees share mostly positive stories while the Indonesian returnees uncover mostly negative stories, further illuminating what may explain these diverse migratory experiences. Finally, the book discusses how research on disenfranchised groups like (domestic) migrant workers can be used for social and political action. An excellent text that will appeal to academics, teachers and postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, anthropology, and migration studies"--
Book Synopsis Migrant Workers' Narratives of Return by : Hans J. Ladegaard
Download or read book Migrant Workers' Narratives of Return written by Hans J. Ladegaard and published by . This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers' experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones. The narratives deal with two major themes: 1) Migrant workers' experiences in the diaspora, which for many, particularly Indonesian workers, were associated with abuse and exploitation leading to trauma; and 2) migrant workers' experiences of coming home, which include both the happy reunion with the family but also concerns about not 'fitting in' and the need to reinvent themselves because they are not who they were when they left. This is particularly true for workers whose migratory journeys have failed and who have come back to their hometowns without any financial award. Chapters also explore the major difference between Filipina and Indonesian migrant workers' overseas experiences. The Filipina returnees share mostly positive stories while the Indonesian returnees uncover mostly negative stories, further illuminating what may explain these diverse migratory experiences. Finally, the book discusses how research on disenfranchised groups like (domestic) migrant workers can be used for social and political action. An excellent text that will appeal to academics, teachers and postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, anthropology, and migration studies"--
Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers’ experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones. The narratives deal with two major themes: 1) Migrant workers’ experiences in the diaspora, which for many, particularly Indonesian workers, were associated with abuse and exploitation leading to trauma; and 2) migrant workers’ experiences of coming home, which include both the happy reunion with the family but also concerns about not ‘fitting in’ and the need to reinvent themselves because they are not who they were when they left. This is particularly true for workers whose migratory journeys have failed and who have come back to their hometowns without any financial award. Chapters also explore the major difference between Filipina and Indonesian migrant workers’ overseas experiences. The Filipina returnees share mostly positive stories while the Indonesian returnees uncover mostly negative stories, further illuminating what may explain these diverse migratory experiences. Finally, the book discusses how research on disenfranchised groups like (domestic) migrant workers can be used for social and political action. An excellent text that will appeal to academics, teachers and postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, anthropology, and migration studies.
Book Synopsis Migrant Workers’ Narratives of Return by : Hans J. Ladegaard
Download or read book Migrant Workers’ Narratives of Return written by Hans J. Ladegaard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers’ experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones. The narratives deal with two major themes: 1) Migrant workers’ experiences in the diaspora, which for many, particularly Indonesian workers, were associated with abuse and exploitation leading to trauma; and 2) migrant workers’ experiences of coming home, which include both the happy reunion with the family but also concerns about not ‘fitting in’ and the need to reinvent themselves because they are not who they were when they left. This is particularly true for workers whose migratory journeys have failed and who have come back to their hometowns without any financial award. Chapters also explore the major difference between Filipina and Indonesian migrant workers’ overseas experiences. The Filipina returnees share mostly positive stories while the Indonesian returnees uncover mostly negative stories, further illuminating what may explain these diverse migratory experiences. Finally, the book discusses how research on disenfranchised groups like (domestic) migrant workers can be used for social and political action. An excellent text that will appeal to academics, teachers and postgraduate students in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, anthropology, and migration studies.
In the study of migration, return has been a critical component in analyzing migratory flows. However, the seemingly borderless international labor markets have transformed states and transcended societies beyond territorial borders, making return dynamics complex and multifaceted as return realities goes beyond the expected A to B and single out-and-return movement (Skeldon, 2012). Interrogating this dichotomy and understanding migrants multiple attachments and varying migration return plans call for a transnational approach in migration. Positing the migration-development nexus, Cassarino (2004) emphasizes that for migrant workers to become development actors, return must be achieved successfully, and this calls for analyzing the degree of maturation of migration experiences of migrants and how they are able to mobilize their resources in cross-border social and economic links and networks between their home and host countries. One case at point is a known labor-sending country, the Philippines. Present in over 197 countries, the Philippines has been one of the largest migrant countries of origin. The emerging multiculturalism amongst countries allowed millions of Filipinos to work overseas to make migration work for their families and for the countryin general (Calzado, 2007). Despite being known for its labor export policy andinstitutionalized migration system, the aspect of return migration has been the weakest link in the countrys migration governance. Return and reintegration services were seen as the component of the governments overseas employment program that needs moreattention (Go, 2012). Anchored on a transnational approach to return, the study analyzed the complementing and contrasting discourses and narratives between the micro, meso, and macro frameworks provided by the five actors from above composed of government institution actors from the host and home countries, alongside with meso-structures of Filipino and religious communities; and 22 OFW respondents, who provided from below narratives with their lived migration experiences in the transnational metropolitan city of Rome. From the empirical case of OFWs in Rome, return framings are seen as a process of preparation, rather than an end to a linear binary flow of human mobility. Such preparation is done by migrant workers through transnational activities, which underscore the vitality of examining the host-home links that migrant workers sustain under the conditionalities of both countries. As the study explored labor migration from a transnational approach, the results indeed challenged the conventional assimilation assumption wherein migrants are expected to adapt within the context of their destination countries. Even if migrants are integrated in the host societies, they still continue to maintain their involvement in the economic, political, and socio-cultural dimensions of their home countries. Nevertheless, the study provided a reveille on the need to weave coherencies in the competing return framings of structures/institutions and of the migrant workers and their social networks. Also, the study deems to recognize the vitality of investing on social capital and of determining the level of preparedness of OFWs and how the conditionalities of both countries of origin and destination are crucial in allowing them to fully mobilize their resources towards securing a better and more sustainable return in the future. It could be noted that the greater the ability of OFWs in resource mobilization, the higher level of readiness, and preparedness as a whole, could be observed. Accordingly, these OFWs with higher preparedness level could contribute more by the time they return to the Philippines or through the transnational ties they continuously sustain at home, as return gives precedence to the process, rather than of permanence. Such territorialized and linear perspective on return migration only overlooks the reality of bringing development into unfixed spaces where migration and the lives of migrants takes place. Hence, this stance raises the imperative of bringing a deterritorialized concept of development for the left-ahead OFWs onsite beyond the borders of home.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Return from the ‘left Ahead’: the Case of Migrant Filipino Workers in Transnational Spaces in Rome, Italy by : Ma Karen Serrano
Download or read book Rethinking Return from the ‘left Ahead’: the Case of Migrant Filipino Workers in Transnational Spaces in Rome, Italy written by Ma Karen Serrano and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the study of migration, return has been a critical component in analyzing migratory flows. However, the seemingly borderless international labor markets have transformed states and transcended societies beyond territorial borders, making return dynamics complex and multifaceted as return realities goes beyond the expected A to B and single out-and-return movement (Skeldon, 2012). Interrogating this dichotomy and understanding migrants multiple attachments and varying migration return plans call for a transnational approach in migration. Positing the migration-development nexus, Cassarino (2004) emphasizes that for migrant workers to become development actors, return must be achieved successfully, and this calls for analyzing the degree of maturation of migration experiences of migrants and how they are able to mobilize their resources in cross-border social and economic links and networks between their home and host countries. One case at point is a known labor-sending country, the Philippines. Present in over 197 countries, the Philippines has been one of the largest migrant countries of origin. The emerging multiculturalism amongst countries allowed millions of Filipinos to work overseas to make migration work for their families and for the countryin general (Calzado, 2007). Despite being known for its labor export policy andinstitutionalized migration system, the aspect of return migration has been the weakest link in the countrys migration governance. Return and reintegration services were seen as the component of the governments overseas employment program that needs moreattention (Go, 2012). Anchored on a transnational approach to return, the study analyzed the complementing and contrasting discourses and narratives between the micro, meso, and macro frameworks provided by the five actors from above composed of government institution actors from the host and home countries, alongside with meso-structures of Filipino and religious communities; and 22 OFW respondents, who provided from below narratives with their lived migration experiences in the transnational metropolitan city of Rome. From the empirical case of OFWs in Rome, return framings are seen as a process of preparation, rather than an end to a linear binary flow of human mobility. Such preparation is done by migrant workers through transnational activities, which underscore the vitality of examining the host-home links that migrant workers sustain under the conditionalities of both countries. As the study explored labor migration from a transnational approach, the results indeed challenged the conventional assimilation assumption wherein migrants are expected to adapt within the context of their destination countries. Even if migrants are integrated in the host societies, they still continue to maintain their involvement in the economic, political, and socio-cultural dimensions of their home countries. Nevertheless, the study provided a reveille on the need to weave coherencies in the competing return framings of structures/institutions and of the migrant workers and their social networks. Also, the study deems to recognize the vitality of investing on social capital and of determining the level of preparedness of OFWs and how the conditionalities of both countries of origin and destination are crucial in allowing them to fully mobilize their resources towards securing a better and more sustainable return in the future. It could be noted that the greater the ability of OFWs in resource mobilization, the higher level of readiness, and preparedness as a whole, could be observed. Accordingly, these OFWs with higher preparedness level could contribute more by the time they return to the Philippines or through the transnational ties they continuously sustain at home, as return gives precedence to the process, rather than of permanence. Such territorialized and linear perspective on return migration only overlooks the reality of bringing development into unfixed spaces where migration and the lives of migrants takes place. Hence, this stance raises the imperative of bringing a deterritorialized concept of development for the left-ahead OFWs onsite beyond the borders of home.
This study examines the experiences of Indonesian returning domestic workers post-migration. It offers an analysis of in-depth interviews with twenty returned migrant women gathered during nine months of fieldwork in Pontianak and Pemangkat, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It considers the links between migration, the changes in women's perspectives regarding family, gender roles and their understanding of themselves, and their surroundings. In the thesis study, I found migration experiences significantly changed how women negotiated their gender roles in connection with their families and communities. While economic drivers were significant in migration, women often indicated that a desire to alter or reshape their social situation was an important aspect of their decision-making. While migration experiences were often empowering, women also considered that they felt caught between two worlds on return; between Malaysia and Indonesia; between life prior to migration and post-migration; between existing social expectations and their own aspirations. They experienced challenges negotiating what their parents or their partners expect of them. The case of these women is explicated to show that gendered labour migration leads to changes in women's socio-economic and socio-cultural environment of personal and family life. This thesis contributes to existing work on gendered migration by close attention to the complex factors that shape women's decisions to migrate for employment; their experiences during the migration process; and the social and cultural challenges and changes that they experience on return.
Book Synopsis Life in Between by : Zakiah Hasan Gaffar
Download or read book Life in Between written by Zakiah Hasan Gaffar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the experiences of Indonesian returning domestic workers post-migration. It offers an analysis of in-depth interviews with twenty returned migrant women gathered during nine months of fieldwork in Pontianak and Pemangkat, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It considers the links between migration, the changes in women's perspectives regarding family, gender roles and their understanding of themselves, and their surroundings. In the thesis study, I found migration experiences significantly changed how women negotiated their gender roles in connection with their families and communities. While economic drivers were significant in migration, women often indicated that a desire to alter or reshape their social situation was an important aspect of their decision-making. While migration experiences were often empowering, women also considered that they felt caught between two worlds on return; between Malaysia and Indonesia; between life prior to migration and post-migration; between existing social expectations and their own aspirations. They experienced challenges negotiating what their parents or their partners expect of them. The case of these women is explicated to show that gendered labour migration leads to changes in women's socio-economic and socio-cultural environment of personal and family life. This thesis contributes to existing work on gendered migration by close attention to the complex factors that shape women's decisions to migrate for employment; their experiences during the migration process; and the social and cultural challenges and changes that they experience on return.
This book examines the concept of translation as a return to origins and as restitution of lost narratives, and is based on the idea of diaspora as a term that depicts the longing to return home and the imaginary reconstructions and reconstitutions of home by migrants and translators. The author analyses a corpus made up of novels and a memoir by Italian-Canadian writers Mary Melfi, Nino Ricci and Frank Paci, examining the theme of return both within the writing itself and also in the discourse surrounding the translations of these works into Italian. These ‘reconstructions’ are analysed through the lens of translation, and more specifically through the notion of written code-switching, understood here as a fictional tool which symbolizes the translational movements between different points of view. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, migration studies, and Italian and diasporic writing.
Book Synopsis Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return by : Michela Baldo
Download or read book Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return written by Michela Baldo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of translation as a return to origins and as restitution of lost narratives, and is based on the idea of diaspora as a term that depicts the longing to return home and the imaginary reconstructions and reconstitutions of home by migrants and translators. The author analyses a corpus made up of novels and a memoir by Italian-Canadian writers Mary Melfi, Nino Ricci and Frank Paci, examining the theme of return both within the writing itself and also in the discourse surrounding the translations of these works into Italian. These ‘reconstructions’ are analysed through the lens of translation, and more specifically through the notion of written code-switching, understood here as a fictional tool which symbolizes the translational movements between different points of view. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, migration studies, and Italian and diasporic writing.
In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. But it does more by providing post-modern theorizing with concrete national and ethnic settings.
Book Synopsis Narratives of Exile and Return by : Mary Chamberlain
Download or read book Narratives of Exile and Return written by Mary Chamberlain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and history of Barbados. But it does more by providing post-modern theorizing with concrete national and ethnic settings.
The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives, and experiences that have shaped the post-1989 world. The contributors examine a broad range of literary texts and critical approaches that cover the spectrum between voluntary and forced migration. In doing so, they reflect the shift in recent years from the author-centric study of migrant writing to a more inclusive conception of migration literature. The book contains sections on key terms and critical approaches in the field; important genres of migration literature; a range of forms and trajectories of migration, with a particular focus on the global South; and on migration literature’s relevance in social contexts outside the academy. Its range of scholarly voices on literature from different geographical contexts and in different languages is central to its call for and contribution to a pluriversal turn in literary migration studies in future scholarship. This Companion will be of particular interest to scholars working on contemporary migration literature, and it also offers an introduction to new students and scholars from other fields. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature by : Gigi Adair
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature written by Gigi Adair and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives, and experiences that have shaped the post-1989 world. The contributors examine a broad range of literary texts and critical approaches that cover the spectrum between voluntary and forced migration. In doing so, they reflect the shift in recent years from the author-centric study of migrant writing to a more inclusive conception of migration literature. The book contains sections on key terms and critical approaches in the field; important genres of migration literature; a range of forms and trajectories of migration, with a particular focus on the global South; and on migration literature’s relevance in social contexts outside the academy. Its range of scholarly voices on literature from different geographical contexts and in different languages is central to its call for and contribution to a pluriversal turn in literary migration studies in future scholarship. This Companion will be of particular interest to scholars working on contemporary migration literature, and it also offers an introduction to new students and scholars from other fields. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses several categories of migrants including medical staff, farm labourers, construction workers, care and domestic workers and international students. It looks at border closures for non-citizens, disruption for temporary migrants as well as at special arrangements made for essential (migrant) workers such as doctors or nurses as well as farmworkers, ‘shipped’ to destination with special flights to make sure emergency wards are staffed, and harvests are picked up and the food processing chain continues to function. The book illustrates how the pandemic forces us to rethink notions like membership, citizenship, belonging, but also solidarity, human rights, community, essential services or ‘essential’ workers alongside an intersectional perspective including ethnicity, gender and race.
Book Synopsis Migration and Pandemics by : Anna Triandafyllidou
Download or read book Migration and Pandemics written by Anna Triandafyllidou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses several categories of migrants including medical staff, farm labourers, construction workers, care and domestic workers and international students. It looks at border closures for non-citizens, disruption for temporary migrants as well as at special arrangements made for essential (migrant) workers such as doctors or nurses as well as farmworkers, ‘shipped’ to destination with special flights to make sure emergency wards are staffed, and harvests are picked up and the food processing chain continues to function. The book illustrates how the pandemic forces us to rethink notions like membership, citizenship, belonging, but also solidarity, human rights, community, essential services or ‘essential’ workers alongside an intersectional perspective including ethnicity, gender and race.
Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to ‘return’ is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as connections and experience gained abroad. Yet, the reality is altogether more complex. In this much-needed volume, based on extensive original fieldwork, the authors reveal that there is all too often a gaping divide between abstract policy assumptions and migrants’ actual practices. In contrast to the prevailing optimism of policies on migration and development, Africa’s Return Migrants demonstrates that the capital obtained abroad is not always advantageous and that it can even hamper successful entrepreneurship and other forms of economic, political and social engagement.
Book Synopsis Africa's Return Migrants by : Lisa Åkesson
Download or read book Africa's Return Migrants written by Lisa Åkesson and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many African migrants residing abroad nurture a hope to one day return, at least temporarily, to their home country. In the wake of economic crises in the developed world, alongside rapid economic growth in parts of Africa, the impetus to ‘return’ is likely to increase. Such returnees are often portrayed as agents of development, bringing with them capital, knowledge and skills as well as connections and experience gained abroad. Yet, the reality is altogether more complex. In this much-needed volume, based on extensive original fieldwork, the authors reveal that there is all too often a gaping divide between abstract policy assumptions and migrants’ actual practices. In contrast to the prevailing optimism of policies on migration and development, Africa’s Return Migrants demonstrates that the capital obtained abroad is not always advantageous and that it can even hamper successful entrepreneurship and other forms of economic, political and social engagement.
This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home countries, where their French pensions would have far greater purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society. This book has been awarded an ‘honourable mention’ in the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, courtesy of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. For more information please see: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/2018.php. This book has been nominated for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
Book Synopsis Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return by : Alistair Hunter
Download or read book Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return written by Alistair Hunter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home countries, where their French pensions would have far greater purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society. This book has been awarded an ‘honourable mention’ in the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, courtesy of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. For more information please see: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/2018.php. This book has been nominated for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
