Introduction: An Ethnography of Return

Oxfeld, Ellen; Long, Lynellyn D.

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“…A diasporic approach to return views the movement back to one's ‘home’ as an inevitable desire – possibly for a sense of belonging and to ‘settle back’ (Ni Laoire ) into one's comfortable place. The ‘myth of home’ or ‘myth of return’ refers to immigrants' longings and imaginings of home where the idea of return frames their lives as expatriates (Oxfeld & Long ). Ni Laoire () argues that desire to return is an enduring theme in diasporic cultures.…”

Section: Diasporic and Transnational Approaches To Return Intentionsmentioning

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Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

2015

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Through in‐depth interviews and participant observation with 40 1.5 generation Korean New Zealander returnees, we explore life trajectories and identify both short‐ and long‐term reasons for return. Short‐term reasons for return include moving home when entering adulthood in order to begin a career, gaining new experiences and finding a future spouse. Longer term influences include the difficulties of living as minority‐status immigrants in the host society, transnational connections and a longing for a sense of ‘home’. Our consideration of longer term migration strategies sheds light upon the often forgotten difficulties and complexities that can underlie an individual's return.

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Section: Diasporic and Transnational Approaches To Return Intentionsmentioning

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Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

2015

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“…The return migration of Korean‐American male English teachers also complicates ideas of home and homeland in an era when more people – including linguistic migrants – are footloose in search of adventure or opportunities (Oxfeld and Long 2004). Much sociolinguistic scholarship has focused on the expansion of linguistic hegemony through globalizing English, where English has been seen as both a response to and constitutive of the growing interconnectedness of a globalized world (Crystal 2003) and also commodified as a resource (Cameron 2005).…”

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Global fatigue: Transnational markets, linguistic capital, and Korean‐American male English teachers in South Korea¹

Cho

2012

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Mass migration characterizes the current moment of globalization. Constituting a particular subset of this global migration are Korean‐American male English teachers who use the linguistic capital of English, commodified as the language of international communication, to exit from the United States and to return to South Korea as linguistic migrants, where they reassert their patriarchal privilege as Korean men. In the highly gendered and racialized Korean English language market, however, they must prove their ‘native English speaker’ status. Remaining oriented towards the U.S. as their proper home, they also continually defer leaving South Korea as it means giving up the privileges of being a male English speaker and become stuck in a life of leisure and aimlessness. As the shadow of neoliberal globalization deepens and their linguistic capital becomes devalued with the return of more Koreans from abroad, their feelings of being stuck turn into global fatigue. 일반 대중들의 대규모 이동은 오늘날 지구화/세계화의 특징적 현상이다. 이러한 전지구적 이주의 한 부분을 구성하는 집단으로 이 연구는 특별히 남성 재미교포 영어교사들에 주목한다. 지구화 시대의 국제 언어로 상품화된 영어 자본은 이들이 미국으로부터 탈출하여 남성으로서 가부장적 특권을 누릴 수 있는 한국사회로 언어적인 이주자로 되돌아 갈 수 있는 기회를 제공해준다. 그러나 성별, 인종 별로 고도로 세분화되고 차등화된 산업구조를 발달시켜온 한국의 영어교육 시장 안에서 이들은 ‘영어 모국어 사용자’로서의 지위를 다시금 증명해야만 한다. 언제고 다시 되돌아 가야 할 자신들의 진정한 고향은 미국이라고 주장하면서도, 계속해서 미국으로의 귀환을 미루는 이면에는 한국사회에서 남성이자 영어모국어 사용자로서 누려온 특권을 포기하지 못한 채, 유흥과 목적 없는 한국생활에 갇혀 버린 현실이 있다. 그러나 신자유주의적 세계화의 그늘이 점점 깊어가고, 외국에서 교육받고 한국으로 되돌아오는 영어에 능통한 한국인들이 늘어나면서 자신들의 영어자본의 가치가 점점 떨어지는 것을 지켜보며, 이들이 느끼는 정체감은 다시 세계화에 대한 불안과 피로감으로 바뀌게 된다. [Korean]

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“…Although more scholars are studying return migration, 20 years on from Gmelch's review 'all the literature on return migration is empirical or descriptive in nature' (King 2000: 40). Oxfeld and Long (2004) urge researchers to treat return migrants as an analytic entity and explore the political, economic and cultural consequences of the return. Khatharya Um (2006) examines how overseas Cambodians have been actively engaging in homeland politics and postwar reconstruction, and has analysed the diversified transnational connections maintained by the Cambodian diaspora and the problems created by return.…”

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Recycling Migration and Changing Nationalisms: The Vietnamese Return Diaspora and Reconstruction of Vietnamese Nationhood

Chan

Tran

2011

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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The Vietnamese diasporic population, largely constituted within international and regional political turbulences in the 1970s and early 1980s, has been swiftly recycled over the last decade. Many first-and second-generation overseas Vietnamese have been returning to Vietnam to live and work. This article examines the interactive dynamics between the homeland society and the returning migrants, and the impact of return migration on Vietnamese nationhood. Unlike most transnational studies that centre on the identity issues of transmigrants, this paper examines changes occurring both to the migrants and to the state and society of origin. It challenges the common perception that migrants are fluid and flexible, whereas the homeland state and society are fixed. While the homeland has been drawing up rhetorical strategies and policy to accommodate these once-discordant overseas subjects, the returning migrants continue their negotiations on history, identity and nationhood. The interactions between the Vietnamese state and the returning diaspora have created a dynamic transnational social field for the reconstruction of the Vietnamese past and present, which in turn poses new questions of boundary-making within the Vietnamese nation as a whole.

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Introduction: An Ethnography of Return

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Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

Global fatigue: Transnational markets, linguistic capital, and Korean‐American male English teachers in South Korea¹

Recycling Migration and Changing Nationalisms: The Vietnamese Return Diaspora and Reconstruction of Vietnamese Nationhood

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Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

Return migration of 1.5 generation Korean New Zealanders: Short‐term and long‐term motives

Global fatigue: Transnational markets, linguistic capital, and Korean‐American male English teachers in South Korea1

Recycling Migration and Changing Nationalisms: The Vietnamese Return Diaspora and Reconstruction of Vietnamese Nationhood

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