ABSTRACT
This chapter provides contextual expos of the determinants of return migration to Ghana. The rationalizations associated about being homeward bound one day are a temporary fix for unmet aspirations, lack of citizenship, and delayed integration into the host society. The sociological understanding of return migration is important in the formulation of governmental strategies to confront the short and long term problems associated with the management of Ghana's human resources. The phenomenon of return migration of Ghanaians started even before the country achieved self-rule. A cadre of returnees left Europe and the United States to come home and agitate for political self-determination and challenge British hegemony over Ghana. To specify the correlates of return migration of Ghana's citizens who have been living abroad, micro and macro-level studies are needed to explain the implications of return migration on the economic, social, and political development of the country. The impact of return migration on national development and reconstruction is difficult to quantify.
