This interdisciplinary volume gathers studies related to the diverse current migratory movements in South East Europe. They demonstrate that South East Europe is a highly dynamic migration region marked by a multiplicity of migration-related processes fuelled by global and especially European developments.

This interdisciplinary volume gathers recent work related to the diverse migratory movements in South-East Europe. The contributions address current aspects of emigration, immigration, transit migration and return from different disciplinary vantage points. They impressively demonstrate that South-East Europe is a highly dynamic migration region marked by a multiplicity of migration-related processes fuelled by global and especially European developments. «This edited book presents an illuminating and stimulating range of essays on a key European and global region which has experienced an extraordinary diversity of migration types and regimes in recent decades. Employing an innovative range of methodologies, the contributions show that South-East Europe is no longer to be seen as a 'problematic' space of emigration and transit but as a theatre for highly dynamic mobility phenomena.» (Russell King, Professor of Geography, University of Sussex) «This thought-provoking book makes an important contribution to understanding migration processes from, within and through South-East Europe. The innovative research approach and new insights about diversity of human mobility in the region described in the book will resonate with scholars, policymakers and broader readership within and beyond the region.» (Hariz Halilovich, Associate Professor of Anthropology, RMIT University, Melbourne) «The thorough theoretical and empirical contributions of this volume reveal South-East Europe as a highly diversified European space of complex migration regimes and processes beyond the image of the "troubled", "ethno-national" Balkans. This timely book impressively shows how good scholarship both critically re-assesses knowledge production and points to inequalities and hierarchies on different scales.» (Jelena Tosic, Researcher and lecturer in Social Anthropology, Universities of Vienna and Berne)

Autorentext

Mirjam Zbinden is a Doctoral researcher in Political Science at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She holds a Master degree in Geography (University of Bern). Her current research examines immigration and asylum policy at the European Union's external border in Bulgaria with a focus on the role of power/knowledge in multi-level migration governance.

Janine Dahinden is Professor of Transnational Studies at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and head of the Maison d'analyse des processus sociaux (MAPS). She specializes on issues on mobility, migration, transnationalisation, ethnicity, social networks, culture and gender. Her research is transdisciplinary and combines qualitative and quantitative methods.

Adnan Efendic is an Associate Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economic Theory and Policy at University of Sarajevo. Adnan also works as the Editor-in-Chief of the South East European Journal of Economics and Business and he is an affiliate fellow at CERGE-EI, Prague. Adnan is an applied economist currently doing research on formal and informal institutions, social capital, and migration.

Inhalt

Mirjam Zbinden/Janine Dahinden/Adnan Efendic: Rethinking the Debate about Diversity of Migration in South East Europe - Alexi Gugushvili: Employment Relations, Job Security and Emigration Intentions: «The Individualisation of the Social?» - Mrika Kotorri/Mario Holzner/Valon Kotorri/Preveza Zherka: The Determinants of Economic Emigration, with Special Reference to Kosovo - Marjan Petreski/Branimir Jovanovic: Do Remittances Reduce Social Disparities in Macedonia? - Bresena Kopliku: Return migration in Shkodra Region - What's the next step? - Natalija PeriSic: Readmission in Serbia - Huge Challenges, Weak Opportunities - Matthias Bickert and Chelsi West Ohueri: Football in the Fringes of Europe: Black African Players and their Livelihoods in Albania - Foteini Mamali: Urban space, Migration and Intersectional Approaches in Gendered Bodies: a Case in Thessaloniki, Greece - Heinz Fassmann/Kathrin Gruber/Elisabeth Musil: South East European Migration Transitions: from Emigration to Immigration?