Rethinking migration and return in Southeastern Europe : Albanian mobilities to and from Italy and Greece / by Eda Gemi, Anna Triandafyllidou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gemi, Eda, author.

Triandafyllidou, Anna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Albania--Emigration and immigration.

Albania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rethinking return, reintegration, and mobility in south-eastern Europe

Setting the analytical framework: reconceptualising return, reintegration, and mobility

Return mobilities of first-generation Albanians: reconciling the rupture of disintegration and negotiating the future

Return mobilities of the second generation: between disintegration and hybrid identities

A typology of return, reintegration, and onwards mobility.

Notes:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode/

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (Taylor & Francis Group, viewed December 22, 2022).

ISBN:

9780429344343

0429344341

OCLC:

1221014375

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344343

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access