Researchers and policymakers around the world are used to analysing emigration and immigration as separate types of migrant trends. Emigration refers to the outflow of citizens from a country (the migrantsending country), and immigration describes the inflow of citizens from somewhere else into a country (the migrant-receiving country). Both emigration and immigration receive a lot of attention from governments and societies. Increasingly, so does re-migration, which is when emigrants return home after long periods of time overseas.
This article argues that emigration, immigration and so-called re-migration flows should be analysed alongside one another, allowing us to understand citizenship, belonging and settlement in new ways.
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