Home Again
Stories of migration and return
Edited by Celia Sorhaindo and Polly Pattullo
£9.99
ISBN
9780953222452
PUBLISHED
2009
FORMAT
Paperback
also an eBook
ISBN
9780953222452
PUBLISHED
2009
FORMAT
Paperback
also an eBook
What happens when people return to the land of their birth after decades away? The migrants’ journey is a well-told story but much less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is it like to be back home?
Home Again is a collection of contemporary real-life stories by men and women who have returned to Dominica. Their feelings and experiences, expressed in their own words, link the challenges of the past to both the positive aspects of return – a sense of belonging and well-being – and also to its difficulties – of rejection and frustration.
Compelling, moving and intensely personal, Home Again, compiled for the Dominica UK Association, is a revealing insight into the lives of these pioneering migrants.
Featured
Home Again was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed, while the Guardian newspaper’s Gary Younge wrote a long article based on the contributors’ stories for the paper’s Saturday magazine.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/nov/28/caribbean-returnees-gary-younge
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WHAT THEY SAY
Frankness and insight.
– New West Indian Guide
It’s wonderful to be able to read these stories that sound and feel so very familiar. I really do believe these are stories that should be told, after all they are a crucial and important part of our history as African-Caribbeans in Europe."
– A. Akintola, Amazon
Frankness and insight.
– New West Indian Guide
It’s wonderful to be able to read these stories that sound and feel so very familiar. I really do believe these are stories that should be told, after all they are a crucial and important part of our history as African-Caribbeans in Europe."
– A. Akintola, Amazon
About the Editors
Celia A Sorhaindo
Celia Sorhaindo was born in Dominica and left with her family for England in 1976. She returned to Dominica in 2005 where she now lives. Guabancex is her first poetry collection.
Polly Pattullo
Publisher Polly Pattullo has written widely about the Caribbean, and her books include Last Resorts: the Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean, a critical assessment of the economic, environmental and cultural impacts of tourism development in the region, and Fire from the Mountain, about the volcano crisis in Montserrat. As a journalist, she worked for two newspapers: the Observer and later the Guardian newspaper in London.
Celia A Sorhaindo
Celia Sorhaindo was born in Dominica and left with her family for England in 1976. She returned to Dominica in 2005 where she now lives. Guabancex is her first poetry collection.
Polly Pattullo
Publisher Polly Pattullo has written widely about the Caribbean, and her books include “Last Resorts: the Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean”, a critical assessment of the economic, environmental and cultural impacts of tourism development in the region, and “Fire from the Mountain”, about the volcano crisis in Montserrat. As a journalist, she worked for two newspapers: the Observer and later the Guardian newspaper in London.
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