Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and Their Families

ISBN-13: 9780367878320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Zana Vathi; Russell King

Opis

The book draws on research encompassing four different continents – Europe, North America, Africa and Asia – to show how contextual differences affect wellbeing in return migration. Previous research has been heavily informed by clinical approaches and concepts, whereas the contributions in this book come from a wide range of social science disc

Recenzje

Return migration is discussed a lot but remains poorly understood in both academic and policy contexts. Engaging with the multi-faceted realities of ‘return’, this books offers a much needed critical view to return migration. Focusing on the psychosocial well being of the returning migrant the book challenges the dominant myth that return is a ‘good thing’. Contributions to this volume cover four continents and very different contexts of return (voluntary and forced, assisted and spontaneous) pointing to the agency of the migrant and to the role of volition in both returning and in seeking to escape (forced) return.

Anna Triandafyllidou, Professor, Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing sheds new light on classical themes in the study of migration, such as agency, home, and the life course. The book connects these themes with current theoretical turns and policy contexts. The focus on psychosocial wellbeing weaves together forms of migration that are usually studies in isolation from each other.

Jørgen Carling, Peace Research Institute Oslo

Readers who want to understand the policy and societal relevance of returnees’ wellbeing will find much in this volume co-edited by Russell King and Zana Vathi. The authors’ contributions accurately identify the various psychosocial dimensions inherent in returnees’ patterns of reintegration as well as their implications. To be sure, this volume clearly shows that it is still possible to reflect on return migration by critically examining and deconstructing predominant assumptions with grounded scientific evidence.

Jean-Pierre Cassarino, Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC)

Spis treści

　

Introduction

The interface between return migration and psychosocial wellbeing

Zana Vathi, Edge Hill University, UK

1. 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












2. 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








　









3. 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: ge

O autorze

Zana Vathi is Reader in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University.

Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor of Migration Studies at Malmö University.