Rückkehr nach Albanien – Migration in Zeiten der Krise
Returning to Albania – Migration in Times of Crisis

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of Albanian reverse migration compares the situation of returning during “the good times” and “the bad times”. Against this background, the socio-economic context and the individual situation of return migrants to Albania are emphasized in the article. Three key results are pointed out: First, the current wave of return migration is not a completely new phenomenon. In some respects it is a continuation of well-known patterns from the recent past. A new element is the more or less enforced character of the return in times of economic crisis, especially from the European country most directly affected, i.e. Greece. Secondly, return migrants leave a fundamentally changed society, which initially received them. But they reconnect with more or less unchanged economic, political and social conditions in Albania. Finally, the “new” returnees, such as those from Greece, bring imprints from abroad in the same way the “older ones” did, regardless of the transformed framework there.

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