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The Urban Dimension of European Return Migration: The Case of Bari, Southern Italy

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  • Russell King

    (Leicester University)

  • Alan Strachan

    (Leicester University)

  • Jill Mortimer

    (Leicester University)

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Amongst a growing literature on intra-European return migration there has been little attention paid to urban settlements. This paper, based on 211 interviews of returned migrants in the south Italian city of Bari, aims to rectify this deficiency. A number of hypotheses concerning the distinctiveness of urban return are put forward and tested using official migration statistics and the questionnaire information, including data from a control sample of 415 rural returnees. As an example of an urban area in an emigration region, Bari is found to experience less emigration and more return migration, than its surrounding rural areas. Its returnees have been to a wider range of destination countries, and for longer periods, than the rural control group. They are also a more diverse group in their employment patterns, both before, during and after migration, and have different attitudes towards migration and return and different priorities and opportunities for the use of migrant savings.

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  • Russell King & Alan Strachan & Jill Mortimer, 1985. "The Urban Dimension of European Return Migration: The Case of Bari, Southern Italy," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 22(3), pages 219-235, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:22:y:1985:i:3:p:219-235
    DOI: 10.1080/00420988520080361
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