ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents mobility categories from voluntary, highly educated transnationals or 'elite' migrants to economic migrants and the forcibly displaced. It explores a large diversity of geographical contexts, from Greek diasporic communities in Brazil to German-Turkish returnees; multinational skilled migrants in Australia; Asian Indian immigrants in the United States; the diaspora of the formerly Portuguese enclave of Macau. The book also explores Jewish American immigrants from Eastern Europe; a Jewish South African of Lithuanian extraction now living in the United Kingdom; British-Bangladeshi migrants; Armenian exiles in the United States; Turkish and Sikh immigrants in Australia; and American WWII veterans settled in France. The stories and verbatim testimony of memories presented in the book complements the grand narratives of nations and diaspora with micro-histories of large and small migrant communities, families and individuals.