Deborah A. Boehm (Editor) Deborah A. Boehm is Foundation Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans and Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation, and co-editor of Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People. Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar (Editor) Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Nevada, Reno and the author of Spain Unmoored: Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam.
Examines the flip side of migration: return migration. As the authors show in rich ethnographic detail, migrants return to their country of origin, or not, for many reasons, including deportations, asylum denials, job loss, lack of access to social and medical support programs, and the desire to restore family relationships. The strength of States of Return is its multi-national focus, which provides new understandings of what return migration means to those who experience it...A must-read book for both scholars and the general public who wish to understand the implications of today’s turbulent migration politics on the people who experience forced and unforced return migration. * Leo Chavez, University of California, Irvine *