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Counterstreams in Migration: Ethiopians' Choices to Stay, Leave, or Return

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hewan GirmaPublish date:1/30/2026Pages:268
Language:EnglishPublisher:Temple University PressISBN-13:9781439925669ISBN-10:1439925666UPC:9781439925669Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Emigration & Immigration, Africa, AnthropologyBook Topic:East, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SC47DBZCDY

Counterstreams in Migration: Ethiopians' Choices to Stay, Leave, or Return

Migration journeys are not unidirectional. In Counterstreams in Migration, Hewan Girma reveals a more complex circuit of migration, concentrating on the motivations behind non-migration, return migration, and repeat migration to show how these flows mutually affect and influence the migrant as well as the family members who remain at home.

Weaving together nearly 100 stories of non-migrants,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Temple University PressISBN-13:9781439925669ISBN-10:1439925666UPC:9781439925669Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Emigration & Immigration, Africa, AnthropologyBook Topic:East, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SC47DBZCDY
Hewan Girma is Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She cofounded and codirects the Ethiopian, East African and Indian Ocean Research Network. She is the coeditor of The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belongings and Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names.
Publisher: Temple University Press

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