This authoritative Handbook provides an interdisciplinary appraisal of the field of return migration, advancing concepts and theories and setting an agenda for new debates.
Structured into four parts, the Handbook maps the contemporary field of return migration, examining the effects and politicisation of return migration, before moving on to explore the theme of reintegration and the impact of return migration on development in the migrants’ countries of origin. Taking an intersectional approach, expert contributors delve into the economics of return migration, deportation, the psychological wellbeing of migrants, student mobility and second-generation ‘return’ migration. The Handbook opens up new avenues for research, including new theories and conceptualisations of return migration, and articulates key issues that should be considered, both for research and for policy and practice.
This Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students interested in migration and human rights. Its use of empirical examples and case studies will also be beneficial for policy-makers seeking an insight into the current issues in return migration.
Author(s): Russell King, Katie Kuschminder
Series: Elgar Handbooks in Migration
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 384
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: definitions, typologies and theories of return migration
PART I THEORISING AND CONCEPTUALISING RETURN MIGRATION
2. The economics of return migration
3. Return and transnationalism
4. Gendering return migration
5. Theorising voluntariness in return
6. Departheid: re-politicising the inhumane treatment of illegalised migrants in so-called liberal democratic states
7. Return visits and other return mobilities
PART II THE POLITICISATION OF RETURN MIGRATION
8. Critical reflections on assisted return programmes and practices
9. The contours of deportation studies
10. The Return Directive: clarifying the scope and substance of the rights of migrants facing expulsion from the EU
11. The return industry: the case of the Netherlands
12. The legitimisation of the policy objective of sustainable reintegration
13. Corruption and return migration
PART III EXPERIENCES OF RETURN AND REINTEGRATION
14. Reintegration strategies
15. Labour migrants and the retirement–return nexus
16. Return migration and psychosocial wellbeing
17. The return migration of children: (re)integration is not always plain sailing
18. Student mobility: between returning home and remaining abroad
19. Returning lifestyle migrants
20. Revisiting second-generation ‘return’ migration to the ancestral homeland
21. Return migration experiences: the case of Central and Eastern Europe
PART IV RETURN MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
22. Exploring the return migration and development nexus
23. Diaspora return and knowledge transfer
24. Return migration, entrepreneurship and development
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