Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe: (47 Suedosteuropa-Jahrbuch)

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. Within this volume, the concept of return takes on a dynamic and multifaceted character. It is seen not as a one-way journey but as an ongoing, non-linear, and reversible process consisting of multiple stages. This approach recognizes that migration is a journey with many dimensions, involving mobility in various directions. The volume sheds light on a variety of migration practices to and from Southeast Europe, revealing a complex interplay of movements over time.

Table of Contents:
Jasna Čapo, Rozita Dimova, Lumnije Jusufi : Preface – Jasna Čapo : Introduction: Meandering Through Return Migration and Its Effects – Daniel Göler : Prologue: Return Migration. Theories, Concepts, Findings – With a Special Emphasis on Southeast Europe – Dhimitёr 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 Beharić, Azra Berbić, Denis Šarić : Bosnian Students Abroad in the Time of a Pandemic: a Global Overview – Darija Hofgräff Marić, 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 Žerić : 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 Milivojević : Negotiating Home and Homecoming in Recent Post-Yugoslav Literature – Ivana Pajić : Die (Re-)Semiotisierung von Herkunftsräumen in den Werken von deutschschreibenden Autor*innen mit Wurzeln aus dem Raum des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens – Aleksandra Ščukanec : 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 Pufuleți: Remittances as Transnational Strategy of Migration Between the Republic of Moldova and Germany – Nilay Kılınç : Deportation of the Second-Generation Turkish “Migrants” from Germany to Turkey: Reflections on Citizenship and (Non-) Belonging – Mila Maevа : 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 Marenčić : Conference Report

About the Author :
Jasna Čapo (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 Kőszeg, 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).