Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe

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 and its two main destination countries, Italy and , the book demonstrates that instead of being viewed as a linear path between origin and destination, migration should be seen as a segmented cyclical pattern that may involve several local- ities and more than two countries. Characterized by important previous historical, social, economic, and political linkages, geographical proxi- mity, 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 dynam- ics 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.

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

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

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Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe Albanian Mobilities to and from Italy and Greece Eda Gemi and Anna Triandafyllidou Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe Albanian Mobilities to and from Italy and Greece Eda Gemi and Anna Triandafyllidou First published 2021 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2021 Eda Gemi and Anna Triandafyllidou The right of Eda Gemi and Anna Triandafyllidou to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. The Open Access version of this book, available at www. taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

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