Decided Return Migration

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This open access book creates conceptual links between political emotions, citizenship, home and belonging. The book describes that, in the case of decided return and reintegration to a post-conflict society and a fragmented state, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, the returnees do not conceptualize the emotional dimension of their BiH citizenship as home and belonging as this citizenship does not make them feel safe and secure. Instead, “feeling at home” is found in family, place and time, while belonging is categorized as ethnic, religious, relational, landscape, linguistic, and economic. The emotional dimension of the home state citizenship is constituted through a wide spectrum of emotions, ranging from anger, frustration, fear, guilt, shame, disappointment, nostalgia, powerlessness, to patriotic love, pride, defiance, joy, happiness and hope. This book provides a valuable resource to students and scholars of migration and diaspora studies, as well as political scientists, human geographers and anthropologists.

This open access book creates conceptual links between political emotions, citizenship, home and belonging. The book describes that, in the case of decided return and reintegration to a post-conflict society and a fragmented state, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, the returnees do not conceptualize the emotional dimension of their BiH citizenship as home and belonging as this citizenship does not make them feel safe and secure. Instead, “feeling at home” is found in family, place and time, while belonging is categorized as ethnic, religious, relational, landscape, linguistic, and economic. The emotional dimension of the home state citizenship is constituted through a wide spectrum of emotions, ranging from anger, frustration, fear, guilt, shame, disappointment, nostalgia, powerlessness, to patriotic love, pride, defiance, joy, happiness and hope. This book provides a valuable resource to students and scholars of migration and diaspora studies, as well as political scientists, human geographers and anthropologists.

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Aida Ibričević

Themen in »Decided Return Migration«

Open access Voluntary return migration to a post-conflict society Re-evaluating the reason-emotion dichotomy in political theory Transmigrants, diaspora members, and returnees Reintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina/post-conflict societies Obstacles of return migration and reintegration strategies Sustainability of return migration Decided or chosen return migration Emotionally motivated migration decision Non-economic motivation for migration decision Non-economic “rationality” and economic “irrationality” Citizenship as feeling Pragmatic, flexible, instrumental citizenship of host state Diasporic belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina Home for diaspora members in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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“Ibričević lays essential groundwork for the study of return migration and reintegration – areas … .  Moreover, she makes a valuable contribution to the often overlooked field of (political) emotions, which shape our daily lives and decisions more profoundly than most scholars are willing to acknowledge. … It is to be hoped that some of the insights offered in this study will inform future research, prove valuable for the design of resettlement and reintegration initiatives … .” (Amina Smajlović, Comparative Southeast European Studies, Vol. 73 (3), 2025) 

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