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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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