Return Migration to Afghanistan

Moving Back or Moving Forward?
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-82180-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 3351 g

Reihe: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration–development–peace-building nexus. Using the concept of multidimensional embeddedness, it provides an encompassing view of returnees’ identification with and participation in one or multiple spaces of belonging. It introduces Afghan return migration from Europe as a relevant case study, since the country’s protracted history of conflict and migration shows how the globally changing political discourses of recent decades have shaped migration strategies. The author’s findings highlight the fact that policy is responding inadequately to complex issues of migration, conflict, development and return, since the expectations on which it is based only account for a small minority of returnees. This thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars of migration and refugee studies, as well as a wider audience of sociologists, anthropologists, demographers and policy makers. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Houte, Marieke van

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Afghanistan.- Chapter 3. Meanings of and motivations for return.- Chapter 4. The hierarchization of migration.- Chapter 5. Love (n)or marriage.- Chapter 6. Returnees for change?.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Marieke van Houte is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK.