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

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.