ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the diverse mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour generated through migration, displacement and diaspora. It advocates a closer integration of research around migrant return visits, diasporic roots tourism and related forms of travel with migration studies and diaspora theory. The book foregrounds memory practices focused on former homes, ancestral homelands and distant places of personal significance. It discusses the linkage between memory, migration and travel in relation to the legacy of the First and Second World Wars. The book explores different types and experiences of return to places of ancestral, parental or personal origin by migrants, exiles and members of diaspora. It highlights the role of food and food-ways in diasporic memory, but investigates these in the specific context of the return journey. The book offers some insights in relation to the intersection of memory, migration and travel.
