{"title":"Return migration, failed reintegration and tragedy in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart","authors":"Ogochukwu Ukwueze, Jacinta Ndidi Okey-Agbo","doi":"10.1386/CJMC_00028_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Do affluence and skilfulness render a returnee immune to reintegration challenges? Beyond psychosocial support, would a wealthy returnee need any other form of assistance for a sustainable reintegration? Drawing upon theoretical ideas from the field of return migration, this study considers reintegration as a key issue for all returnees, irrespective of financial status, class or skilfulness, the failure of which is a disastrous end. This end explains the tragedy of Things Fall Apart, which is also reinvestigated here, and it is argued that the novel is simultaneously tragic and comic. The focus is on the possible failure of reintegration of a financially stable returnee. For this study, although tragedy inheres in whom one is, tragedy in the novel under consideration is attributive to the failed reintegration of the tragic character, despite his affluence, status or skills.","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC_00028_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Do affluence and skilfulness render a returnee immune to reintegration challenges? Beyond psychosocial support, would a wealthy returnee need any other form of assistance for a sustainable reintegration? Drawing upon theoretical ideas from the field of return migration, this study considers reintegration as a key issue for all returnees, irrespective of financial status, class or skilfulness, the failure of which is a disastrous end. This end explains the tragedy of Things Fall Apart, which is also reinvestigated here, and it is argued that the novel is simultaneously tragic and comic. The focus is on the possible failure of reintegration of a financially stable returnee. For this study, although tragedy inheres in whom one is, tragedy in the novel under consideration is attributive to the failed reintegration of the tragic character, despite his affluence, status or skills.
富裕和熟练是否使归国者免于重新融入社会的挑战?除了社会心理支持之外,富有的返回者是否需要任何其他形式的援助才能可持续地重新融入社会?根据回返移徙领域的理论观点,本研究认为重新融入社会是所有回返者的一个关键问题,不论其财政状况、阶级或技能如何,如果不能重新融入社会,后果将是灾难性的。这一结局解释了《Things Fall Apart》的悲剧性,本文也对其进行了重新探讨,认为小说同时具有悲剧性和喜剧性。重点是财政稳定的返回者可能无法重新融入社会。在本研究中,虽然悲剧是与生俱来的,但所考虑的小说中的悲剧是由于悲剧人物未能重新融入社会,尽管他富有,地位或技能。