Migrant Balancing Acts: Understanding the Interactions Between Integration and Transnationalism

‘Where are you from’ or ‘when did you come’? Temporal dimensions in migrants' reflections about settlement and return

“…In much research on integration and transnationalism, how time interacts with social and cultural identity formation when it comes to settlement and ties with the origin country is a significant backdrop (see e.g. Carling and Pettersen 2014;Erdal and Oeppen 2013;Levitt and Glick Schiller 2004;Reynolds 2010;Snel, Engbersen, and Leerkes 2006). Time is also central in the changing perspectives on the desire to return (Elchardus et al 1987in Cwerner 2001.…”

Transnational return? On the interrelation of family, remigration, and transnationality – An introduction

“…It mainly focused on the political reintegration and "sustainable return" of highly skilled migrants (Baraulina & Kreienbrink, 2013;Kilbride, 2014) as well as on the "myth of return" (Sinatti, 2010). In transnational studies, return migration has been discussed in recent years with a focus on transnational practices, belongings, and diverse mobility patterns (Erdal & Oeppen, 2013;Jeffery & Murison, 2011), and a new approach to analyze the interconnectedness between return migration and transnationalism has emerged (Carling & Erdal, 2014;Yeoh, Charney, & Kiong, 2003). Other areas of interest include ancestral returns or the return of the second and subsequent generations to the historical "roots of their ancestors" (King, Christou, & levitt, 2014;Tsuda, 2009), return migration after a regime change (Scholl-Schneider, 2011), late-life remigration such as returning after retirement (Percival, 2013), and enforced migration such as the deportation of refugees (Ghanem, 2003).…”

Differentiated embedding: Polish migrants in London negotiating belonging over time

“…As other researchers have noted, settling into the new country does not necessarily mean losing connections with the home country (Erdal and Oeppen 2013). It is necessary to explore negotiations across multiple sites simultaneously (Erdal and Ezzati 2015;Grzymala-Kazlowska 2016).…”