Return Lebanese migrants and their post-return experience Tripoli case study. (c2019)

Research on migration studies for decades has been mostly aimed at understanding the collective movement of people. Scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds arrived at various theories attempting to understand the motives behind their emigration. This thesis aims to examine the post-return experi...

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Main Author: Hakim, Yasmin El (author)
Format: masterThesis
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/11587
https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2019.153
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.php
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Summary:Research on migration studies for decades has been mostly aimed at understanding the collective movement of people. Scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds arrived at various theories attempting to understand the motives behind their emigration. This thesis aims to examine the post-return experience and the complexities return migrant encounter. It focuses on the identity of Lebanese return migrants, their sense of belonging, their social dimension, and access to legal rights. This study takes North Lebanon as a case study to answer the thesis’s basic question: What is the post-return experience of Lebanese return migrants and their role as agents of change.