the Politics of Return

The standard disclaimer in the literature on migration and on return migration specifically that there is a pronounced dearth of writings on the mat­ter cannot be made any more. There are now works on return migration both descriptive and analytic which make the field of return migration an esta­blished subdiscipline in the study of migration from whatever perspective, be it economics, geography, sociology or any soci al science hybrid. Part III, 8 of the present volume offers an inventory of the current literature on return migration. The present volume adds to the current concern with return migrati on. The close to forty papers on the subject address return migration in Europe, especially in the present and the preceding decade and also offer excursions into the history of return migration to Europe.