Author: Russell King Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317524594 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development. It remains the only study of its kind. International in scope, the book includes chapters on return migration in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Canada, Jamaica, Algeria and the Middle East.
Author: Robert Nadler Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137575093 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 400
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This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration. Since the Eastern enlargement of the EU, many regions of Central and Eastern European have experienced a loss of human resources in core industries, raising concerns about social, economic and territorial cohesion in the region. The success rates of national and regional governmental policy aiming to retain or re-attract skilled workers have been variable, yet return migration has emerged as a major element of migration flows. Bringing together leading researchers on this important topic in contemporary European geography, the contributors analyse a series of key issues. These include: theoretical frameworks in the field of return migration; the nexus between return migration and regional development; the effects of the global and European crisis on emigration and return migration; non-economic motivations for emigration and return; the intergenerational character of return migration, and; the reintegration of return migrants into post-socialist societies. Taken together, the chapters see return migrants as important agents of change, innovation and economic growth. The book will be of great interest for scholars and students of human, economic and political geography.
Author: Anna Triandafyllidou Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030812103 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses several categories of migrants including medical staff, farm labourers, construction workers, care and domestic workers and international students. It looks at border closures for non-citizens, disruption for temporary migrants as well as at special arrangements made for essential (migrant) workers such as doctors or nurses as well as farmworkers, ‘shipped’ to destination with special flights to make sure emergency wards are staffed, and harvests are picked up and the food processing chain continues to function. The book illustrates how the pandemic forces us to rethink notions like membership, citizenship, belonging, but also solidarity, human rights, community, essential services or ‘essential’ workers alongside an intersectional perspective including ethnicity, gender and race.
Author: W. (ed.) Dumon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 324
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This issue of “International Migration” is devoted to the Seventh ICM Seminar, which examined the economic and social aspects of voluntary return migration. After statements by the Director General and by guest speakers, thirteen expert papers are presented in English, followed by summaries of the debates, conclusions, and recommendations in English, French, and Spanish. The topics covered by the expert papers include: the different forms, reasons, and motivations for voluntary return migration; the meaning, kinds, and consequences of return migration; problems confronting migrants on their return to their countries of origin; the return of international labour migrants in the ESCAP region; measures which host countries and countries of origin might adopt to promote the return of migrants; measures to facilitate the reintegration of migrants into their country of origin; programmes to encourage the return of talent and reverse the 'brain drain'; measures to facilitate the return and reintegration of highly skilled migrants into African countries; and, the various reasons for voluntary return migration. The summaries, conclusions and recommendations are grouped under five sub-themes, as follows. Sub-theme a) considers the different forms, reasons and motivations for voluntary return migration. It was recommended that information and counselling services to migrants should be improved, and that researchers should identify the motives for the return of different groups and clarify the problems they face on their return. Sub-theme b) considers return migration in the context of overall migration, and points out the lack of data, especially on the problems faced by women. Recommendations include the need to study the effects of return migration on the migrant family as a whole. Sub-theme c) considers the problems of reintegration faced by those returning, particularly by second-generation migrants. Coordination in research was recommended, and also that migrants should be accurately informed, before leaving their host country, about conditions they will encounter, including an up-to-date evaluation of their employment opportunities. Sub-theme d) concentrates on measures to ease the reintegration of returnees, which could be taken by, firstly, the host countries and, secondly, the countries of origin. Recommendations included the suggestion that the ICM and other international organizations should expand their activities in this field. The specific needs of the children of returning migrants should be provided for in both the host country and in their country of origin. Sub-theme e) considers measures to facilitate the return and reintegration of highly-skilled migrants into developing countries. The recommendations include the suggestion that the experience gained in ICM's Return of Talent Programmes in Latin America and Africa makes a useful base which might be expanded. Regional skill pools might be set up, to achieve regional self-sufficiency in certain needed skills and avoid to their loss through emigration. Aid which helps developing countries to strengthen their educational and training capabilities might encourage the return and reintegration of skilled migrants. The volume is completed by an extensive bibliography of material published, in several languages, on the subjects covered by the seminar.
Author: Robyn R. Iredale Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781781957431 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 236
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'There are few studies on return migration in general and even fewer on migrants who have returned to their home countries in the Asian and Pacific region. Much is heard about "brain drain but much less about brain drain reversal. This book is to be welcomed as the first multi-country study to be published on the return of skilled and business migrants and the impact that they can have on their home economies in Asia and the Pacific. That impact is shown to be various and to change over time, the contributions clearly varying depending upon the nature of the environments to which the migrants have returned. The book presents valuable material from Bangladesh, China, Taiwan and Viet Nam, together with a contextual analysis of migrant communities from these economies in Australia.' - Ronald Skeldon, University of Sussex, UK Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid significantly less attention to the movement of people than they have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance and provides timely insights into recent developments in return skilled migration in four regions in the Asia Pacific - Bangladesh, China, Taiwan and Vietnam. The authors believe that the movement of skilled migrants, and the tacit knowledge they bring with them, is a vital component in the process of globalisation.
Author: Ruth Achenbach Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3658160276 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 314
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Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet insufficiently explained by migration research: why do migrants deviate from their migration intentions and return sooner or later than planned, or not at all? Her study integrates factors from the spheres of career, family and lifestyle, and redefines stages in long-term decision-making processes, thereby contributing to decision and migration theory. She analyzes migrants’ shifting priorities over the course of migration, including a perspective on life course and on the impact of the triple catastrophe of March 11, 2011.
Author: Savina Ammassari Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 144384313X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 360
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This book focuses on international migration and return of highly-skilled Ghanaians and Ivorians and presents empirical research findings that demonstrate that, under certain circumstances, return migrants can act as key development agents in their home country. It investigates the influence of a number of factors that condition their motivation to return and their capacity to stimulate change in their countries of origin. The aim of the study is the assessment of policy implications related to élite returnees’ development impact in evolving socio-economic contexts. The comparative and multi-method research strategy adopted revealed that migrants tend to return home with considerable savings (financial capital), new knowledge, skills and ideas (human capital), as well as with valuable contacts (social capital). Besides their level of education, work profile, and particular life experience, whether these migrants have worked abroad for a significant period, proved the most critical factor influencing their acquisition of different kinds of capital. However, there seems to be an ‘optimum’ work duration abroad – approximately five years – after which the benefits deriving from human and financial capital acquisition tend to stabilise. At the micro level, back home skilled migrants attained their goals, improving their relative income levels, expressing satisfaction with their work conditions and, more generally, enjoying a higher quality of life. At the meso level, they provided support to others in line with expectations and pressures they faced. They also introduced many kinds of new knowledge, skills and ideas in their workplace. At the macro level, return migrants promoted economic and political transformations through, among others, the creation of new businesses and various community development initiatives. The role of return migrants is influenced by many factors linked also to their situation back home. Reintegration into their home context proved challenging, especially for women, and returning migrants need time to overcome initial hurdles and get settled before they can start to make any meaningful contribution. That is one of the reasons why there is a need to facilitate their reintegration and create a conducive environment which can also foster return migration of the highly-skilled élite. More importantly, however, evidence is produced in favour of arguments and ideas about ‘brain circulation’, a strategy that can help in maximising the positive effects stemming from migration and return.
Author: Russell King
Author: Robert Nadler
Author: Rosemarie Rogers
Author: Anna Triandafyllidou
Author: W. (ed.) Dumon
Author: Robyn R. Iredale
Author: Jungwon Yeo
Author: Ruth Achenbach
Author: Britta Klagge
Author: Savina Ammassari