Description
Book SynopsisThis 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
Table of Contents
1. Rethinking return, reintegration, and mobility in south-eastern Europe. 2. Setting the analytical framework: reconceptualising return, reintegration, and mobility. 3. Return mobilities of first-generation Albanians: reconciling the rupture of disintegration and negotiating the future. 4. Return mobilities of the second generation: between disintegration and hybrid identities. 5. A typology of return, reintegration, and onwards mobility.
