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Talking at cross-purposes? On ambiguous relationships between international policies on return and reintegration and their local conceptualisations in Ghana, the Gambia and Senegal
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Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) gGmbH
Abstract This Working Paper explores and compares return to and reintegration in Ghana, the Gambia and Senegal while setting different positionalities of migrants against migration and return regimes and broader socio-economic inequalities. The Paper first highlights the trajectories and motivations of migra... view more
This Working Paper explores and compares return to and reintegration in Ghana, the Gambia and Senegal while setting different positionalities of migrants against migration and return regimes and broader socio-economic inequalities. The Paper first highlights the trajectories and motivations of migrants and returnees, including a group-centred perspective on the continuous relevance of relations with the communities of origin. Then, it relates migrant journeys to diverging national political economies and policies. Differing return policies on the one hand and conflicting interests and expectations of the involved actors on the other create unequal options and expectations of mobility. The case studies show that diverging experiences of return, thus, not only depend on the individual situations, such as differences in age, gender, legal status or social class, but also the broader social context, the existing economic situation - and finally the politicised relations and interests between stakeholders in the migration and return processes. The findings on circular mobility and division of labour respectively widen the perspective on return and reintegration policies, wich have traditionally been shaped by a uni-linear uni-directional bias.... view less
Keywords
remigration; Senegal; Ghana; standard of living; Gambia; social inequality; West Africa; migration policy; socioeconomic factors; reintegration; living conditions; migration; migration research
Free Keywords
Lebensformen; Repatriierung; Rückanpassung; wirtschaftliche und soziale Indikatoren
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
City
Bonn
Page/Pages
43 p.
Series
BICC Working Paper, 1/2022
ISSN
2521-781X
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0