One of Us or Stranger? A Taxonomy of Homecomers

In this chapter, the juxtaposition of structural processes and returning migrant’s lifeworlds enables the author to point out the taxonomy of returning migrants’ strategies, understood as a constellation of six criteria: migrants’ actions as the result of their perceptions of structural characteristics, patterns of reworking emotions in the migration cycle, pattern of social mobility, macro-structural consequences of returnees’ actions, the meaning of place and social network patterns, identity and personality changes.