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 related to the return of retired, elderly migrants. This important study looks at the one-and-a-half and second generation migrants, the youthful contract workers and the 'prolonged sojourners' and the consequences of their return to source communities.

Return Migration of the Next Generations looks at global migration patterns of the one-and-a-half and second generations, young contract workers and 'prolonged sojourners,' and examines their return home and its consequences.