guest worker programs - Migration and Diaspora Studies - Research, Policy & Public Engagement Mon, 19 May 2025 08:33:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/aidaibricevic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-Aida4-3-scaled-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 guest worker programs - 32 32 195946387 TRAFF Final Conference in Prishtina, Kosovo /traff-final-conference-in-prishtina-kosovo/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=traff-final-conference-in-prishtina-kosovo Sun, 18 May 2025 16:52:41 +0000 / As I am nearing the end of ethnographic fieldwork for the Swedish contribution to the MORE Project, I was looking for ways to connect my PhD work on decided return migration with my postdoctoral research on return and readmission policies. The notion of “sustainability” of return and reintegration, both on a conceptual level and in policy implementation, came […]

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]]> 727 European Labor History Network (ELHN) Conference at Uppsala University /european-labor-history-network-elhn-conference-at-uppsala-university/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=european-labor-history-network-elhn-conference-at-uppsala-university Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:59:18 +0000 / It was great fun presenting a conference paper on returns of retirement, an extension of a blogpost I wrote earlier and based on data collected by the Museum of Yugoslavia and the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. My paper was part of a panel entitled “Between past and future: memory and the workers’ perspective.” […]

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]]> 651 Returns of retirement: The Gastarbeiter reflect on working abroad to retire at home /returns-of-retirement-the-gastarbeiter-reflect-on-working-abroad-to-retire-at-home/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=returns-of-retirement-the-gastarbeiter-reflect-on-working-abroad-to-retire-at-home Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:41:50 +0000 / Although “returns of retirement” have been recognised as a distinct category of return migration as early as Cerase (1974), and identified as lying on the intersection of two highly important phenomena: ageing and migration (King, Cela, and Fokkema, 2021), “retirement return migration” has not yet received the full attention it deserves (Ciobanu & Ramos, 2016). […]

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