In
recent decades, the term ‘mobility’ has emerged as a defining paradigm within
the humanities. For scholars engaged in the multidisciplinary topics and
perspectives now often embraced by the term Pacific Studies, it has been a
much more longstanding and persistent concern. Even so, specific questions
regarding ‘mobilities of return’—that is, the movement of people ‘back’ to
places that are designated, however ambiguously or ambivalently, as
‘home’—have tended to take a back seat within more recent discussions of
mobility, transnationalism and migration.
This volume situates return mobility as a starting point for understanding
the broader context and experience of human mobility, community and identity
in the Pacific region and beyond. Through diverse case studies spanning the
Pacific region, it demonstrates the extent to which the prospect and practice
of returning home, or of navigating returns between multiple homes, is a
central rather than peripheral component of contemporary Pacific Islander
mobilities and identities everywhere.
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