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...]
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...]
Return migrants’ perceptions of living conditions in Ethiopia: A gendered analysis
This article I co-wrote with Ozge Bilgili and Melissa Siegel was recently published in Migration Studies. This paper investigates the case of Ethiopian returnees by exploring three sets of independent variables: (1) the migration experience, (2) the return experience, and (3) the post-return conditions in Ethiopia. For this analysis, we utilize a subsample of returnees based on a household survey conducted among 1,284 households in five regions of Ethiopia in 2011. The subsample consists of 146 … [Read more...]
New Working Paper: Taking stock of Assisted Voluntary Return from Europe: decision making, reintegration and sustainable return- time for a paradigm shift
Here is a new working paper that provides an overview of Assisted Voluntary Return from Europe. Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) is a central component of European Union (EU) member states migration management policies and has grown in popularity over the past two decades. At present, all EU member states have active AVR programmes, however, despite the growing prevalence of these programmes there has been a dearth of research and evaluation on AVR. In addition, a common goal of these AVR … [Read more...]
New Working Paper: The role of migration‐specific and migration‐relevant policies in migrant decision‐making in transit
In follow-up to the Occasional Paper 'Understanding Irregular Migrants Decision Making Factors in Transit' Khalid Koser and I have just published this working paper that further examines the role of policies in migrants decision making. Abstract This paper examines the role of migration-specific and migration-relevant policies in migrant decision-making factors for onwards migration or stay in Greece and Turkey. In this paper we distinguish migration-specific … [Read more...]
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