Return migration after conflict is the result of a complex decision-making process. However, our understanding of this complexity is blurred by changing politicized understandings of return. In this paper, we compare the autobiographical narratives of return of ‘early’ and ‘late’ (post-mid-1990s) arrivals of Afghans who met with changing reception regimes in Europe and returned to Kabul under a wide range of circumstances. We first develop a framework that attempts to understand migration from an actor-based rather than a bureaucratic perspective. We then deconstruct how Afghan migrants made sense of their own return migration, and analyse the ambivalences and seeming contradictions we find in them. The findings show that there are...
This article offers a single case study of everyday suffering (‘khapgan’—Pakhto; ‘feeling down’) exp...
This article contributes to the lack of research on refugee journeys by examining the factors influe...
The return of refugees and migrants back to their country of origin is an important topic on the age...
Contains fulltext : 162096.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Return migratio...
This paper explores a new avenue of the hierarchisation of mobility amongst voluntary and involuntar...
This paper explores a new avenue of the hierarchisation of mobility amongst voluntary and involuntar...
Repatriation programmes for refugees and asylum seekers are based on the assumption that going ‘home...
This article addresses under which circumstances migrants returning from European to (post-) conflic...
Contains fulltext : 77184.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)Return migrati...
States in 2001 became stricter and forced Afghan refugees to return to their country of origin. Thes...
Return migration policies are used by states to manage migration. The assumption is that populations...
This article explores Afghan return migrants' strategies and constraints to identify with the differ...
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants...
In contrast to the general perception of the recent Afghan migration into Europe as a recently conce...
The attention paid by international organisations to the link between migration and development in m...
This article offers a single case study of everyday suffering (‘khapgan’—Pakhto; ‘feeling down’) exp...
This article contributes to the lack of research on refugee journeys by examining the factors influe...
The return of refugees and migrants back to their country of origin is an important topic on the age...
Contains fulltext : 162096.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)Return migratio...
This paper explores a new avenue of the hierarchisation of mobility amongst voluntary and involuntar...
This paper explores a new avenue of the hierarchisation of mobility amongst voluntary and involuntar...
Repatriation programmes for refugees and asylum seekers are based on the assumption that going ‘home...
This article addresses under which circumstances migrants returning from European to (post-) conflic...
Contains fulltext : 77184.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)Return migrati...
States in 2001 became stricter and forced Afghan refugees to return to their country of origin. Thes...
Return migration policies are used by states to manage migration. The assumption is that populations...
This article explores Afghan return migrants' strategies and constraints to identify with the differ...
This article examines agency unfolding in the relationships that Afghan migrants and return migrants...
In contrast to the general perception of the recent Afghan migration into Europe as a recently conce...
The attention paid by international organisations to the link between migration and development in m...
This article offers a single case study of everyday suffering (‘khapgan’—Pakhto; ‘feeling down’) exp...
This article contributes to the lack of research on refugee journeys by examining the factors influe...
The return of refugees and migrants back to their country of origin is an important topic on the age...