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Turkish Return Migration from Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2013

Esma Durugönül
Esma Durugönül*
Affiliation:
Akdeniz University Faculty of Letters, Department of Sociology Campus, TR-07058 Antalya, Turkey. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Return migration has been one of the rather neglected aspects of migration until recently, although a considerable number of international migrants as well as inter-regional migrants return to their place of origin. Nevertheless, since the beginning of the 1990s, the interest for issues related to return migration has grown considerably. In the context of Turkish return migration there still is a lack of information about the motives for returning, the new social status, the levels of satisfaction and reintegration as well as the employment and income of emigrants who have returned home. This paper aims at shedding light on this neglected aspect of Turkish migration in the context of Europe as well as on the history of Turkey as a country of immigration.

Type
Focus: Turkey and Europe
Information
European Review , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 412 - 421
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 2013 

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