New Albanian Migration

by King, Russell; Mai, Nicola; Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie

• ISBN13: 9781903900789
• ISBN10: 1903900786
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

Prevented from leaving their country for over 45 years, the citizens of the Republic of Albania emigrated en masse during the 1990s and the exodus continues. According to the 2001 census, one in five Albanians was a migrant living abroad, mainly in Greece and Italy but also, and increasingly, in a range of other European countries and in North America. The volume's contributors comprise key researchers on Albanian migration from around the world. The book will reflect the wide diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches deployed by researchers studying this phenomenon.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
1 Introducing and theorising Albanian migration	1	(28)
Kosta Barjaba and Russell King
2 Lifestyles and integration of Albanian women in Bologna: Two steps forward, one step back?	29	(35)
Ellen Kelly
3 Examining policy responses to immigration in the light of interstate relations and foreign policy objectives: Greece and Albania	64	(29)
Gerasimos Konidaris
4 The Albanian migration cycle: Migrants tend to return to their country of origin after all	93	(25)
Lois Labrianidis and Panos Hatziprokopiou
5 Albanian migrants' remittances: A development opportunity?	118	(21)
Flavia Piperno
6 Albanian high-skilled migrant women in the US: The ignored experience	139	(14)
Aida Orgocka
7 'Greece belongs to Greeks!' The case of the Greek flag in the hands of an Albanian student	153	(20)
Gazmend Kapllani and Nicola Mai
8 Better than Muslims, not as good as Greeks: Emigration as experienced and imagined by the Albanian Christians of Lunxheri	173	(22)
Gilles do Rapper
9 The uses of origin: Migration, power-struggle and memory in southern Albania	195	(18)
Georgia Kretsi
The Contributors	213	(2)
Index	215