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Effects of Organizational Factors on Identification of Young Returnees from Urban Areas with Rural Societies – A Perspective of Adaptability
To stimulate local socio-economic development in develo** countries, it is effective to attract the young generation for employment and...
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Newcomers and ‘Roots Migrants’: Chain Migrations and the Revitalization of Rural Shrinking Areas in Spain
This article analyses the processes of rural shrinking/revitalisation in Spain from the perspective of chain mobilities. It attempts to go beyond the...
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Young Farmers’ Difficulties and Adaptations in Agriculture: A Case Study from a Mountainous Town in Sichuan Province, Southwest China
The unprecedented rural labour migration in China has resulted in the transformation of rural areas and the entire rural society. Migrant workers...
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Challenges to Returnees in Afghanistan: A Post-2014 Analysis
This chapter explores the effectiveness of the Afghan Government’s policy framework for the returnees primarily based on the United Nations High...
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Return Migration of Rural-Urban Migrant Children in China
Rural migrant children in urban China face multiple barriers in the public education system, and these challenges lead many of them to return to...
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Perceived Factors Influencing Younger Adults’ Rural-Urban Migration and its Implications on Left Behind Older Parents in Nsukka LGA: Practice Considerations for Gerontological Social Workers
As the number of young adults moving to urban areas increases, so does the number of older parents who are left behind in rural areas, where they...
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International Student Returnees: Nowhere at Home
In this chapter, I explore the experiences of female migrants who migrated to undertake undergraduate or graduate studies rather than specifically...
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Back to a Redeemed Future: Rural Communities and Apocalypse in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Peru
In 2020 and 2021 in Peru, hundreds of thousands of people left large cities to avoid strict pandemic lockdowns and pandemic-related dangers. Most of...
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Village Meaning Home: The Exodus from Urban India During the Pandemic of COVID-19
Professor Yogendra Singh had been suggesting that a new way of seeing and describing the world would be required in the wake of the COVID-19...
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Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event
This introductory paper, reflecting the Thematic Cluster of four papers, brings together two themes that are important for migration studies: return...
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Losing, Creating and Re-creating Home and Belonging
So far, geography scholars have theorized the emotional dimension of citizenship as home and belonging, while relevant scholarly literature treats...
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Conclusion
This book focuses on the return migration of transnational Chinese students to three megacities in China and examines how they practice and...
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Albanian Return Migration in Times of Economic Hardship: The Role of Migratory Intentions
Not all migrantsMigrants manage to return to the country of origin after some time living abroad. However, this is a highly complex phenomenon that...
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To Be a Cityzen of Where?
This chapter explains why returnees decided to return to China and how they chose a megacity. Most returnees recruited in this study chose to return...
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Return, Precarity and Vulnerability in West Africa: Evidence from Nigeria
This chapter analyses how return and reintegration programmes for irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers construct and create...
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The Future of Reducing Urban Vulnerability with Perspectives of Child Development in Zimbabwe
The COVID-19 disease outbreak has left no continent unturned as it has affected the young and the old regardless of color or creed. It poses an even...
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Leaving the City: Counterurbanisation and Internal Return Migration in Sweden
This paper examines counterurban migration among young families with children in Sweden and the extent to which these moves reflect return migration,...
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Resilience of Housing Supply in Urban Villages for Migrant Groups: A Demand Side Investigation
Is the urban village a passive choice for non-hukou migrants under the discriminatory hukou system? The answers are mixed. This chapter reviews...
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Cityzenship and the Hukou System
This chapter focuses on the discussion of how the hukou system influences transnational Chinese students’ migration to the three megacities and their...
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Mobile immobility: an exploratory study of rural women’s engagement with e-commerce livestreaming in China
Based on our fieldwork in Yunnan Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, this paper explores the different ways in which Chinese rural women...
