1st Edition

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

By Eda Gemi, Anna Triandafyllidou Copyright 2021
156 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

156 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Preface

Chapter 1: Rethinking return, reintegration, and mobility in south-eastern Europe

Chapter 2: Setting the analytical framework: reconceptualising return, reintegration, and mobility

Chapter 3: Return mobilities of first-generation Albanians: reconciling the rupture of disintegration and negotiating the future

Chapter 4: Return mobilities of the second generation: between disintegration and hybrid identities

Chapter 5: A typology of return, reintegration, and onwards mobility

Appendix A: List of interviewees returned from Italy, 2014-2017

Appendix B: List of interviewees returned from Greece, 2014-2017

Appendix C: Second-generation interviewees, Italy and Greece, 2017

Index

Biography

Eda Gemi is Senior Lecturer at the University of New York Tirana.

Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies.