Handbook of Return Migration

Edited by Russell King, Professor of Geography, University of Sussex, UK and Katie Kuschminder, Senior Researcher, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

‘Russell King and Katie Kuschminder have brought together a multidisciplinary team to cover return migration from multiple conceptual, theoretical, empirical and political angles. The volume focuses on the intersection of these approaches to provide a general but also detailed survey of the field. Given the multidisciplinary nature of this collection, this volume will be useful across the field of migration studies as well as within the specific discipline approach of each individual chapter. In particular, scholars and practitioners working in the area of migration and ethics, especially human rights, should find this collection valuable.’

• Contents:1 Introduction: definitions, typologies and theories of return migration 1Russell King and Katie KuschminderPART I THEORISING AND CONCEPTUALISING RETURN MIGRATION2 The economics of return migration 24Jackline Wahba3 Return and transnationalism 38Özge Bilgili4 Gendering return migration 53Russell King and Aija Lulle5 Theorising voluntariness in return 70Marta Bivand Erdal and Ceri Oeppen6 Departheid: re-politicising the inhumane treatment of illegalisedmigrants in so-called liberal democratic states 84Barak Kalir7 Return visits and other return mobilities 96Md Farid MiahPART II THE POLITICISATION OF RETURN MIGRATION8 Critical reflections on assisted return programmes and practices 108Ine Lietaert9 The contours of deportation studies 122Martin Lemberg-Pedersen10 The Return Directive: clarifying the scope and substance of the rights ofmigrants facing expulsion from the EU 137Alan Desmond11 The return industry: the case of the Netherlands 153Marieke van Houte12 The legitimisation of the policy objective of sustainable reintegration 167Rossella Marino and Ine Lietaert13 Corruption and return migration 185Erlend PaaschePART III EXPERIENCES OF RETURN AND REINTEGRATION14 Reintegration strategies 200Katie Kuschminder15 Labour migrants and the retirement–return nexus 212Claudio Bolzman16 Return migration and psychosocial wellbeing 226Zana Vathi17 The return migration of children: (re)integration is not always plain sailing 241Daina Grosa18 Student mobility: between returning home and remaining abroad 255Elisa Alves19 Returning lifestyle migrants 270Katie Walsh20 Revisiting second-generation ‘return’ migration to the ancestral homeland 283Nilay Kılınç21 Return migration experiences: the case of Central and Eastern Europe 299Anne WhitePART IV RETURN MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT22 Exploring the return migration and development nexus 314Russell King23 Diaspora return and knowledge transfer 331Charlotte Mueller24 Return migration, entrepreneurship and development 344Giulia SinattiIndex