Counterstreams in Migration: Ethiopians’ Choices to Stay, Leave, or Return

＂This book presents the motivations for migrating, not migrating, returning, and migrating again of Ethiopian subjects considering movement to the Global North who were interviewed by the author. The author presents migration emotions as a constantly evolving mix of pushes and pulls, driving the potential for different choices over a lifetime＂-- Provided by publisher.

Hewan Girma is Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She cofounded and codirects the Ethiopian, East African and Indian Ocean Research Network. She is the coeditor of The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belongings and Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names.