Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe: Albanian Mobilities to and from Italy and Greece

This book provides a new analytical framework for understanding return, remigration, and circular mobility, conceptualizing them as different phases of a wider migration process. It demonstrates that migration should be seen as a segmented, or cyclical pattern that may involve several localities and more than two countries. The case study of Albania and its two main destination countries, Italy and Greece, offers an optimal case study for analyzing complex return, reintegration, and mobility processes. The lessons learned from this study are relevant for labor migration in Europe and other important migrant origin countries in the EU's neighborhood.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 148 pages
\n Publication date: 25 May 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This groundbreaking book offers a novel analytical framework for understanding return, remigration, and circular mobility, conceptualizing them as distinct phases within a broader migration process. Through an in-depth case study of Albania and its two primary destination countries, Italy and Greece, the author demonstrates that migration should be perceived as a segmented and cyclical pattern, rather than a linear journey from origin to destination. The book highlights the importance of previous historical, social, economic, and political linkages, geographical proximity, and high migration volatility and sustained flows in both directions, making Albanian migration to Italy and Greece an ideal case study for analyzing complex return, reintegration, and mobility processes. While the study's focus on a unique regional migration system is intriguing, its findings shed light on significant migration and mobility dynamics that are relevant for labor migration in Europe, particularly from other important migrant origin countries in the EU's neighborhood, such as Morocco or the Ukraine.

This comprehensive theoretical and empirical study appeals to researchers in European Studies and Migration Studies, as well as contributing valuable insights to policy discussions on managing return migration, reintegration, and circular migration. The Open Access version of this book, accessible at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429344343, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

\n Weight: 300g\n
Dimension: 146 x 224 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367361785\n \n