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oapen-20.500.12657-478802021-04-21T07:30:14Z Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe Gemi, Eda Triandafyllidou, Anna Politics and government Migration, immigration and emigration bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration This book provides an important new analytical framework for making sense of return, remigration and circular mobility, conceptualising them as different phases of a wider migration process. Using an in-depth case study of Albania and its two main destination countries, Italy and Greece, the book demonstrates that instead of being viewed as a linear path between origin and destination, migration should be seen as a segmented, or cyclical pattern that may involve several localities and more than two countries. Characterised by important previous historical, social, economic and political linkages, geographical proximity but also high migration volatility and sustained flows in either directions, Albanian migration to Italy and Greece offers an optimal case study for analysing complex return, reintegration and mobility processes. While interesting as a unique regional migration system, the lessons learned cast light on important migration and mobility dynamics that are relevant for labour migration in Europe, also from other important migrant origin countries in the EU’s neighbourhood such as for instance Morocco or the Ukraine. This rich theoretical and empirical study will be of interest to researchers within European Studies and Migration Studies, as well as providing a useful contribution to policy debates on how to govern return migration, reintegration and circular migration. 2021-04-20T08:10:17Z 2021-04-20T08:10:17Z 2021 book ONIX_20210420_9781000375633_12 9781000375633 9780367758509 9780429344343 9780367361785 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47880 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000375633.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429344343 10.4324/9780429344343 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000375633 9780367758509 9780429344343 9780367361785 Routledge 152 open access
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This book provides an important new analytical framework for making sense of return, remigration and circular mobility, conceptualising them as different phases of a wider migration process. Using an in-depth case study of Albania and its two main destination countries, Italy and Greece, the book demonstrates that instead of being viewed as a linear path between origin and destination, migration should be seen as a segmented, or cyclical pattern that may involve several localities and more than two countries. Characterised by important previous historical, social, economic and political linkages, geographical proximity but also high migration volatility and sustained flows in either directions, Albanian migration to Italy and Greece offers an optimal case study for analysing complex return, reintegration and mobility processes. While interesting as a unique regional migration system, the lessons learned cast light on important migration and mobility dynamics that are relevant for labour migration in Europe, also from other important migrant origin countries in the EU’s neighbourhood such as for instance Morocco or the Ukraine. This rich theoretical and empirical study will be of interest to researchers within European Studies and Migration Studies, as well as providing a useful contribution to policy debates on how to govern return migration, reintegration and circular migration.
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