Gendered vulnerability and return migration

Return Migration of Foreign Students

Using administrative panel data, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the return of recent foreign students in the Netherlands. We focus on how individual labour market changes and marriage formation influence their decision to leave. Our model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration, the labour market and the marriage formation processes. The la...

Return migration and reintegration challenges: lived experience of expert returnees via Iranian universities

With the expansion and diversification of the process of international displacement as a factor affecting the national development of countries, the arena of migration studies needs to be reconsidered. The rising trend of external migration in recent years has been identified as one of the challenges in the policy area and requires comprehensive pathology. This study was conducted to understand...

The New Migration: Global Labour Markets and Return Migration

Return Migration: Theory and Empirical Evidence

In this paper we discuss forms of migration that are non-permanent. We focus on temporary migrations where the decision to return is taken by the immigrant. These migrations are likely to be frequent, and we provide some evidence for the UK. We then develop a simple model which rationalizes the decision of a migrant to return to his home country, despite a persistently higher wage in the host c...

Return Migration and the “healthy immigrant effect”

According to the “healthy immigrant effect” (HIE), immigrants upon arrival are healthier than locally born residents. However, this health advantage is supposed to diminish or even disappear over a relatively short period and the immigrants’ health status is converging to that of the natives. The causes for this gradient of immigrants’ health are subject to an ongoing discussion and the underly...