Abstract
This chapter is based on the ethnography of return migration, their notion towards home and place of belonging of Nepalese coal mine migrant workers of Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya. It argues the return of Nepalese migrant workers to Nepal is not just a physical act of returning home rather return is a process that allows memories of migration from the past. The chapter centres around circular migrant workers who permanently returned to Nepal after migration to the coal mines of Meghalaya. The informants in the chapter were mostly male coal mine migrant workers from Nepal. The findings from the ethnographic data suggest that Nepalese coal mine migrants’ return to their homeland is interconnected with the place of migration and its origin country. This chapter dealt with the many different efforts Nepalese migrant workers made in course of their journey to the coalmines of Meghalaya from their home villages in Nepal.
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