Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 60th International Academic Week organized by the Southeast Europe Association in October 2022. The event brought together scholars to discuss the various facets of international return migration from diverse destination countries back to Southeast Europe.

Autorentext
Jasna Capo (PhD University of California Berkeley, 1990) is Research Advisor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and Titular Professor at the University of Zagreb. She has a multi-disciplinary background in ethnology, cultural anthropology, demography, and French language and literature. She was a post-doctoral fellow in Strasbourg and Vienna; Humboldt Fellow in Munich, Berlin, and Tübingen; visiting professor at Universities of Vienna, Ljubljana, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, and Tübingen among other.
Rozita Dimova (PhD Stanford University, 2004) is a Social Anthropologist. She has held research positions at prominent institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (2003-2006), Free and Humboldt Universities in Berlin (2007-2015), and served as an Associate Professor in Southeast European Studies at Ghent University in Belgium (2013-2020). A Founding and Permanent Board Member at the Center for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Research in Skopje, North Macedonia, she is currently also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Köszeg, Hungary.
Lumnije Jusufi (PhD Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 2009, Habilitation Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2021) is an Albanologist and Linguist. She was a doctoral and post-doctoral fellow in Munich, and a Humboldt Fellow in Tirana. She approaches migration studies through sociolinguistics. Her doctoral thesis was in Dialectology and Area Linguistics on Albanian in North Macedonia; her habilitation thesis on the influence of the state border on the region of Dibra (Albania-North Macedonia).

Inhalt
Jasna Capo, Rozita Dimova, Lumnije Jusufi : Preface - Jasna Capo : Introduction: Meandering Through Return Migration and Its Effects - Daniel Göler : Prologue: Return Migration. Theories, Concepts, Findings - With a Special Emphasis on Southeast Europe - Dhimit r Doka, Daniel Göler : Rückkehr nach Albanien. Phasen, Effekte, Perspektiven - Kalie Kërpaçi, Martin Kuka : The Re-Migration of Albanian Returned Migrants - Marsida (Salihi) Tafilica : Entrepreneurship by Albanian Return Migrants - Lumnije Kadriu : Self-Voluntary "Permanent" Return Migration to Post-War Kosovo - Samir Beharic, Azra Berbic, Denis Saric : Bosnian Students Abroad in the Time of a Pandemic: a Global Overview - Darija Hofgräff Maric, Sarah Hofgräff : To the End of the World and Back: Reasons for Returning to Croatia and Levels of Protection in the 19th and 20th Century - Sara Zeric : Factories Built on the Deutsche Mark. Yugoslav Gastarbeiter Investments in Creating Jobs in the Homeland - Linda Paganelli :
Interlogue: Film Evening - No Place Like Home. Return Films in Southeast Europe - Mirko Milivojevic : Negotiating Home and Homecoming in Recent Post-Yugoslav Literature - Ivana Pajic : Die (Re-)Semiotisierung von Herkunftsräumen in den Werken von deutschschreibenden Autor*innen mit Wurzeln aus dem Raum des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens - Aleksandra Scukanec : Sprache und Identität von Kroat*innen in Österreich:Burgenlandkroat*innen vs. (Trans)Migrant*innen - Blertë Ismajli : Zwischen Emigration und Remigration - Chancen für die deutsche Sprache in Kosovo - Zaira Tiziana Lofranco : Leaving without Returning? On New Bosnian Labour Emigration and
Changing Economics of Transnational Living - Jana Stöxen : Parcels, Pills, and Pufule i: Remittances as Transnational Strategy of Migration Between the Republic of Moldova and Germany - Nilay Kilinç : Deportation of the Second-Generation Turkish "Migrants" from Germany to Turkey: Reflections on Citizenship and (Non-) Belonging -
Mila Maev : Transnationalism and Elderly Left Behind in Bulgaria - Rozita Dimova : Epilogue: The EU and the Balkans: A Game of Power and Duplicity. The Final Panel Discussion - Sara Marencic : Conference Report