Return Migration as a Largely Male Phenomenon

Return migration is a crucial yet often overlooked dimension of the migratory experience. Recognizing return paths challenges the notion of migration as a unilinear, one-directional process, instead revealing the circular and continuous nature of human mobility. Even in the era of transatlantic migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many passengers crossed the Atlantic multiple times. Returning to Europe was often not the conclusion of a journey but simply another stage in an ongoing cycle of movements. Gender shaped the kinds of careers and opportunities available to mobile people. Even if women and men moved within distinct socio-economic power structures, evidence on gender-specific data on transatlantic returnees before World War I remains scarce

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