“…The development of returnee HSs’ language competence after moving to the parents’ home country is a largely unexplored research topic, particularly in comparison to research on “common” HSs, who live in the migration context (Putnam, Kupisch, & Pascual y Cabo, ). The most obvious reason is the absence of large, homogeneous groups of returnee populations (see Mehotcheva & Köpke, , for a discussion). A significant part of research is, therefore, based on (multiple) case studies (e.g., Kuhberg, ; Tomiyama, ; Yoshitomi, ).…”