Abstract
Since international migration in Kyrgyzstan is mostly temporary in character, accordingly, return migration is a natural process or “the closing phase of temporary migration” (Guarnizo 1997: 289). However, temporary migration does not always end with a permanent return to the home. Due to various reasons and circumstances, it can be transformed into permanent, circular or transnational migration. Therefore, the ambiguous geographies of return migration, particularly its temporal and spatial dimensions, are considered in the first part of this chapter. The second part deals with reasons for return and the experiences of return migrants, as well as the fulfilled or, as the case may be, unfulfilled expectations from their migration. In the last part of the chapter, the employment and livelihood patterns of returnees are considered, as are the intentions of returnees to re-migrate.
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This household survey studied both international and internal migration.
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Sagynbekova, L. (2016). Return Migration. In: The Impact of International Migration. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26991-7_8
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