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In ‘Return to Afghanistan: Migration as a Reinforcement of Socio-Economic Stratification’, PhD fellow Marieke van Houte, Dr. Melissa Siegel and Tine Davids explore return migration to Afghanistan using the life stories of 35 Afghan returnees from European countries. The researchers argue that socio-economic differences that existed prior to migration are reinforced by the migration experience, which in return results in very different experiences of mobility and return. This serves as an important lesson for policy makers interested in return migration and development.
The full articles is available in Population, Space and Place.