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Leaving the West Only to Return: The Ethnic Returns of 2nd Generation Vietnamese

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The subject of ethnic return migration has garnered growing attention within the realm of international migration research. While much of the existing literature has centered on the movement of individuals returning from low-income to high-income nations, this paper illuminates the inverse trajectory by scrutinizing the trend of second-generation, Western-born Vietnamese migrants who return to their ancestral country of Vietnam. Drawing on 32 in-depth interviews from participants from 11 different Western countries, the current online ethnography explores the phenomenon of ethnic return migration of the second generation. Through an analysis of the interplay between the birth home and ancestral home, identity and belonging, this paper elucidates the factors that both encourage and obstruct the ethnic return migration of Western-born Vietnamese migrants.

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  • Le, Daniel, 2023. "Leaving the West Only to Return: The Ethnic Returns of 2nd Generation Vietnamese," SocArXiv ykjr9_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:ykjr9_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ykjr9_v1
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