I am happy to announce that my book 'Reintegration Strategies' has just been published by Springer. This book critically examines and theorizes the process of how return migrants reintegrate into their countries of origin. The result is a new methodology for understanding the experiences of return migrants, or their 'reintegration strategies'. This approach demonstrates that reintegration strategies differ by type of return migrant, leading to variations in how far they are able to contribute to … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2017
Interrogating the Relationship between Remigration and Sustainable Return
In this article just published in International Migration I argue that remigration is not a valid indicator to measure sustainable return and that policy and practice approaches to assisted voluntary return need to move beyond a focus on remigration as a definition of success. Assisted voluntary return is a central component of many countries managed migration policies. Within these programmes achieving a sustainable return is a common policy goal, which is often measured through remigration. … [Read more...]