Vathi / King Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing

Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-21447-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vathi, Zana

King, Russell

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Gonda, University of Lódz, 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.