Return Migration and Regional Development in Europe: Mobility Against the Stream

Nadler, Robert (Editor)/ Kova cs, Zolta n (Editor)/ Glorius, Birgit (Editor)/ Lang, Thilo (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1137575085 / ISBN 13: 9781137575081

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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409 pages. 8.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Return Migration and Regional Development in Europe: Mobility Against the Stream
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137575085
• ISBN 13: 9781137575081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.64 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book assesses recent migration patterns in Europe, which have significantly included 'return migration' against the stream of East-West migration. Since the Eastern enlargement of the EU, many regions of Central and Eastern European have experienced a loss of human resources in core industries, raising concerns about social, economic and territorial cohesion in the region. The success rates of national and regional governmental policy aiming to retain or re-attract skilled workers have been variable, yet return migration has emerged as a major element of migration flows.

Bringing together leading researchers on this important topic in contemporary European geography, the contributors analyse a series of key issues. These include: theoretical frameworks in the field of return migration; the nexus between return migration and regional development; the effects of the global and European crisis on emigration and return migration; non-economic motivations for emigration and return; the intergenerational character of return migration, and; the reintegration of return migrants into post-socialist societies. Taken together, the chapters see return migrants as important agents of change, innovation and economic growth. The book will be of great interest for scholars and students of human, economic and political geography.

About the Author

Robert Nadler is a Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany

Zoltán Kovács is Professor of Economic and Social Geography, University of Szeged, Hungary

Birgit Glorius is Associate Professor of Human Geography of East Central Europe, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Thilo Lang is Head of Department at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig, Germany