Full Description
Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers. Nonetheless, issues of psychosocial wellbeing are rarely discussed in its context.
Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing problematises the widely-held assumption that return to the country of origin, especially in the context of voluntary migrations, is a psychologically safe process. By exploding the forced-voluntary dichotomy, it analyses the continuum of experiences of return and the effect of time, the factors that affect the return process and associated mobilities, and their multiple links with returned migrants' wellbeing or psychosocial issues.
Drawing research encompassing four different continents - Europe, North America, Africa and Asia - to offer a blend of studies, this timely volume contrasts with previous research which is heavily informed by clinical approaches and concepts, as the contributions in this book come from various disciplinary approaches such as sociology, geography, psychology, politics and anthropology. Indeed, this title will appeal to academics, NGOs and policy-makers working on migration and psychosocial wellbeing; and undergraduate and postgraduate students who are interested in the fields of migration, social policy, ethnicity studies, health studies, human geography, sociology and anthropology.
Contents
Introduction
The interface between return migration and psychosocial wellbeing
Zana Vathi, Edge Hill University, UK
The forced-voluntary continuum in return migration
Return to wellbeing? Irregular migrants and assisted return in Norway
Synnøve Bendixsen, University of Bergen, Norway
Hilde Lidén, Institute for Social Research, Norway
Forced to return? Agency and the role of post-return mobility for psychosocial wellbeing among returnees to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Poland
Marta Bivand Erdal, Peace Research Institute, Norway
Ceri Oeppen, University of Sussex, UK
Between 'voluntary' return programs and soft deportation: sending vulnerable migrants in Spain back 'home'
Barak Kalir, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ancestral returns, adaptation and re-migration
Roots migration to the ancestral homeland and psychosocial wellbeing: young Polish diasporic students
Marcin Gońda, University of Łódź, Poland
'This country plays tricks on you': Portuguese migrant descendant returnees narrate economic crisis-influenced 'returns'
João Sardinha, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
David Cairns, University of Lisbon, Portugal
'Invisible' returns of Bosnian refugees and their psychosocial wellbeing
Selma Porobic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Asylum systems, assisted returns, and post-return mobilities
'Burning without fire': the paradox of the state's attempt to safeguard deportees' psychosocial wellbeing
Daniela DeBono, Malmö University, Sweden
The return of refugees from Kenya to Somalia: gender and psychosocial wellbeing
Nassim Majidi, Science Po, France
Time heals? A multi-sited, longitudinal case study on the lived experiences of returnees in Armenia
Ine Lietaert, Eric Broekaert and Ilse Derluyn, Ghent University, Belgium
Life-Course, family and health
The need to belong: Latvian youth returns as dialogic work
Aija Lulle, University of Sussex, UK
Migration and return migration in later life to Albania: the pendulum between subjective wellbeing and place
Eralba Cela, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
To stay or to go? The motivations and experiences of older British returnees from Spain
Kelly Hall, University of Birmingham, UK
Charles Betty, University of Northampton, UK
Jordi Giner, University of Valencia, Spain
'Is this really where home is?' Experiences of home in a revisited homeland among ageing Azorean returnees
Dora Sampaio, University of Sussex, UK
Conclusions
Exploring the multiple complexities of the return migration-psychosocial wellbeing nexus
Russell King, University of Sussex, UK
