Clustering Reasons for Returning: an Overview of Return Migration in Albania

Return migrants in Albania show highly heterogeneous motivation-for-return profiles. It is certainly complicated to obtain a full vision of returnees’ characteristics, but this paper contributes to better understand the complex nature of their experiences before and during their life abroad, and aft...

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Published inJournal of international migration and integration Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 361 - 374
Main Author García-Pereiro, Thaís
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.05.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Cluster analysis
Clustering
Demography
Economic crisis
Economic development
Economics
Empirical analysis
Financial services
Heterogeneity
Migrants
Migration
Motivation
Population Economics
Profiles
Rehabilitation
Return migration
Social development
Social Sciences
Sociology
Transnationalism
Albania
Cluster analysis
Multinomial logistic regression
International migration
Return migration
Transnationalism
Albania
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Summary:Return migrants in Albania show highly heterogeneous motivation-for-return profiles. It is certainly complicated to obtain a full vision of returnees’ characteristics, but this paper contributes to better understand the complex nature of their experiences before and during their life abroad, and after their return to Albania. Cluster analysis allowed grouping returnees that have similar characteristic by their reason for returning, leading to homogeneous empirical types that reflect the multifaceted system of interactions between the host and the home countries in which migrants are embedded. This paper clearly identifies at least two well-differentiated groups based on migrant reasons for returning and gives some policy recommendations to increase the in-flown and fully take advantage of returnees’ potentialities for the economic and social development of the country. Existing programs and services for the reintegration of return migrants in Albania must abandon their general stamp to consider the complex heterogeneity of returnees’ profiles.
ISSN:1488-3473
1874-6365
DOI:10.1007/s12134-018-0611-z