Geographies of place, culture and identity in the narratives of second-generation Greek-Americans returning 'home'

It is based on the oral testimonies and written narratives of second-generation Greek-American return mi-grants who have moved to Greece, their parents' country of origin. An important consideration in my analysis is the multiple interactions between place of origin and place of destination, network ties and global forces.

The paper aims at understanding how these elements influence and shape return migrant behaviour and in particular to enlighten our understanding or return migration as a process that encompasses the combined notion of "place" and "identity" as the outcome of a continuous search for "home" and what this means. My objective is to examine not only the experience of return per se but primarily the meanings at-tached to this experience.