Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four centuries.

1. Introduction - Marjory HarperSection 1: Overviews of return2. Emigrants returning: the evolution of a tradition - Mark Wyman3. 'Come back Paddy Reilly': aspects of Irish return migration, 1600-1845 - Patrick FitzgeraldSection 2: Motives of return migrants4. Children of the diaspora: the 'homecoming' of the second generation Scot in the seventeenth century - Steve Murdoch5. Running home from Australia: intercontinental mobility and migrant expectations in the nineteenth century - Eric Richards6. 'My wayward heart': homesickness, longing and the return of British post-war immigrants from Australia - Alistair Thomson7. Roots tourism as return movement: semantics and the Scottish diaspora - Paul BasuSection 3: Mechanisms of return8. 'Settling down': masculinity, class and the rite of return in a transnational community - Bruce S. Elliott9. Canada in Britain: returned migrants and the Canada Club - Kathleen Burke10. 'Two homes now': the return migration of the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf - Marilyn J. BarberSection 4: The impact of return11. Returning to Belhelvie, 1593-1875: the impact of return migration on an Aberdeenshire parish - Alexia Grosjean12. The Highlands and the returning nabob: Sir Hector Munro of Novar, 1760-1807 - Andrew MackillopIndex