1. Caryl Phillips, ‘Interview: George Lamming Talks to Caryl Phillips’, Wasafiri, 13, 26 (autumn 1997), p. 13.
2. The account of the Mallorys’ lodging house is from David Lodge, The Picturegoers (London: Pan, 1962 [1960]), p. 34.
3. Michael McMillan’s description of his childhood home appears in The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (London: Black Dog, 2009).
4. Arif Ali is quoted in Winston James, ‘Migration, Racism and Identity Formation: The Caribbean Experience in Britain’, in Winston James and Clive Harris, eds., Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (London: Verso Press, 1993), p. 276.
5. For Dónall Mac Amhlaigh on Irish immigrant fashion see ‘The Celt and his Clothes’, Ireland’s Own, 30 October 1971, p. 14.
6. The Jamaican returnee who found he was treated as a tourist is quoted by Donald Hinds, Journey to an Illusion: The West Indian in Britain (London: Heinemann, 1966), p. 190.
7. On philanthropic building projects in the Punjab see Verne A. Dusenberry and Darshan S. Tatla, eds., Sikh Diaspora Philanthropy in Punjab: Global Giving for Local Good (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009).
8. For construction around Mangla lake see Virinder S. Kalra, From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks: Experiences of Migration, Labour and Social Change (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), p. 71. On Caribbean ‘returnees’ see Daniel Miller, ‘Migration, Material Culture and Tragedy: Four Moments in Caribbean Migration’, Mobilities 3 (2008), pp. 397–413; Heather A. Horst, ‘ “You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once”: Rethinking Transnationalism through Jamaican Return Migration’, Identities 14, 1–2 (2007), pp. 63–83.
9. On nostalgia as a survival strategy see Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001); Nicola Mooney, Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams: Identity and Modernity among Jat Sikhs (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011); Helen Taylor, Refugees and the Meaning of Home: Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). For the man who dreamt of return to Jamaica, see Hinds, Journey, p. 191.
10. Philip Donnellan’s The Colony was broadcast by the BBC in 1964; the Trinidadian woman student is quoted in Henri Tajfel and John Dawson, eds., Disappointed Guests: Essays by African, Asian and West Indian Students (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 62.