Return Migration and Tertiary Development: A Calabrian Case-Study

King, Russell; Mortimer, Jill; Strachan, Alan

doi:10.2307/3317926

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“…In Bangladesh, the proportion of return migrants self-employed increased from 41 percent before migration to 58 percent after migration, and for Korea from 11 to 25 percent. King et al (1984) The proportion self-employed in Sri Lanka increased from 10 percent before migration to 16 percent upon returning from abroad ( Table 8). The main reason for this low percentage is that more than half of Sri Lankan migrants were female workers who were housewives before migration, and most of them became housewives again on return [Athukorala (1990), p. 335].…”

Section: Return Migration and Occupational Change: The Experience Of mentioning

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Return Migration and Occupational Change: The Case of Pakistani Migrants Returned from the Middle East

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Irfan²

2022

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This paper examines the factors affecting occupational composition of Pakistani workers upon their return from Middle East employment by using the 1986 ILO/ARTEP Survey of Return Migrant Households. In view of the concentration of workers in lowstatus occupations prior to migration, there was a great incentive for them to change these occupations after return. The study shows that the economic resources gained from overseas employment gave migrants the strength to seek independent employment, and there was a clear move out of the production-service occupations into business and agriculture occupations. This movement was strongly related to migrants’ length of stay in the Middle East. Since the occupational structure of the general population remained almost unchanged in the 1970s and 1980s, the employment trends exhibited by return migrants could largely be attributed to overseas migration. However, the study shows that businesses and farms established by migrant workers were small-scale.

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Section: Return Migration and Occupational Change: The Experience Of mentioning

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Return Migration and Occupational Change: The Case of Pakistani Migrants Returned from the Middle East

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Irfan²

2022

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“…We endorse the definition of King (1986aKing ( , 2000, above, with the proviso that the 'significant period abroad' can be varied according to context. In their field survey of return migration to Southern Italy carried out in the early 1980s, King et al (1984King et al ( , 1985King et al ( , 1986) specified a dual temporal threshold: at least one year spent abroad and at least a year spent back in the home community, in order to exclude temporary return visitors. Kuschminder's more recent research on return migration and reintegration in Ethiopia considered a minimum of three months for the stay abroad -on the argument that this allowed for short-term contract migration and student migration -and in the belief that this length of time still allows for 'exposure to another culture and context to have an impact on individuals' values and behaviours ' (2017, p.5).…”

Section: Defining Return Migrationmentioning

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Introduction: definitions, typologies and theories of return migration

King¹

2022

Handbook of Return Migration

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“…The anthropology of migration during the 1970s and 80s was characterized by the studies of ethnicity, especially in the European and North American urban contexts (Vertovec, 2007) and also interest in migrants and migration study highly increased and thus anthropologists engaged in a wide range of topics including assimilation (Peterson, 1972), ethnicity and racial discrimination (Watson, 1977), forced migration (Kiste, 1974), labor migration (Wiest, 1974;Marx, 1986), return migration (Gmelch, 1980;King et al, 1984), and refugee (Gmelch, 1983). Moreover, influenced by Wallerstein's World System Theory and Marx perspectives, anthropologists studied the impact of political economy on the lives of peripheral peoples and their response to the system.…”

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German Turks in Berlin: Social exclusion and strategies for social mobility

Çağlar

1995

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Using the lens of transnational social fields of migration, this thesis examines and scrutinizes motivations, adaptations, transnational practices, and the lived experiences of Ethiopian migrants in Turkey and returnees in Ethiopia. The present day Ethiopian migration to Turkey is intricately associated with the broader domains of transnationalism such as economic, social, cultural, political fields, as well as historical processes in which Ethiopian migrants engaged in their daily activities. The thesis empirically and theoretically examines a fundamental and salient research question: how do Ethiopians, as individuals and group, perceive, act, and interact in the transnational social fields (most often unequally distributed) while living in Turkey and after returning home? The thesis is carried out based on the existing knowledge of socio-cultural anthropology of migration, multi-sited ethnographic research and qualitative approach. Tools such as participant observation and a variety of interviews were employed to collect data from a group of Ethiopian educatıon and labor migrants living in Turkey (Ankara and Istanbul) and returnees in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa).The research findings reveal that Ethiopians in Turkey maintained two ways of connection: adaptation/integration to the Turkish society and transnational attachment to homeland but with different level of adaptation, and transnational experiences & practices. The social fields in which Ethiopians engaged in transnational practices, the fields that they constructed, reconstructed, and maintained between host and home countries are unequally distributed as they do not have the same experiences, capacity, skills, opportunities, and legality to play. As Ethiopians moved to Turkey with varying motivations and aims, they did so return home with varying motivations, transnational experiences and capital. Returnees, adding new ones, maintained transnational practices that they created while living in Turkey, and with the capital and experiences they accumulated in Turkey and brought with them, they acted as agents of social change in their homeland.

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Return Migration and Tertiary Development: A Calabrian Case-Study

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Return Migration and Occupational Change: The Case of Pakistani Migrants Returned from the Middle East

Return Migration and Occupational Change: The Case of Pakistani Migrants Returned from the Middle East

Introduction: definitions, typologies and theories of return migration

German Turks in Berlin: Social exclusion and strategies for social mobility

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