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Returning Home
Why do foreign migrants yearn to go home and what happens when they do?
Shivaani Kohok hears emotional tales from those returning to Jamaica, Sierra Leone, India and Ghana.
Why do foreign migrants yearn to go home and what happens when they do? Some have had no choice, but others are influenced by nostalgia for their early lives. Or sometimes by disillusionment with their adopted country. When they go back, can the old country live up to their hopes and dreams? Shivaani hears emotional tales from those returning to Jamaica, Sierra Leone, India and Ghana.
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Mon 26 Jun 201705:32GMT
BBC World Service South Asia
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Should we stay or should we return?
Duration: 01:54
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Back to a home I never really knew
Duration: 01:22
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- Mon 19 Jun 201712:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Mon 19 Jun 201721:06GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Tue 20 Jun 201701:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Mon 26 Jun 201705:32GMTBBC World Service South Asia
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