Europes invisible migrants Following the decolonization movements that swept the globe after World War II between four and six million people were returned to Europe from the colonies. From an exporter of people Europe turned to a site of immigration for the first time in the twentieth century. Until now these migrations have been overlooked as scholars have highlighted instead the parallel migrations of former colonized peoples. Europes Invisible Migrants corrects this bias. This multidisciplinary volume presents essays by prominent sociologists historians and anthropologists on their research with these invisible migrant communities. Their work highlights the experiences of colonists returning to France Portugal and the Netherlands the intersection of race citizenship and colonial ideologies and the ways these migrations reflect the return of the colonial to Europe. This volume offers fresh insights into immigration racism and ethnic conflict in post colonial Europe by presenting colonial repatriates as another immigrant population.