The new Albanian migration

Russell King, Nicola Mai, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers

Sussex Academic Press, 2005 - Social Science - 218 pages

This is the first major book on Albanian migration, the most significant East-West migration since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Prevented from leaving their country for over 45 years, the citizens of the Republic of Albania emigrated en masse during the 1990s and the exodus continues. According to the 2001 census, one in five Albanians was a migrant living abroad, mainly in Greece and Italy but also, and increasingly, in a range of other European countries and in North America. The volume offers a comprehensive and integrated understanding of Albanian migration, addressing its temporal and spatial dynamics, its diversity of types and destinations, and the implications of the migration for Albanian society and economic development. Its contributors comprise key researchers on Albanian migration from around the world. The book reflects the wide diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches deployed by researchers studying this phenomenon.

Contents

• II: 1
• III: 29
• IV: 64
• V: 93
• VI: 118
• VII: 139
• VIII: 153
• IX: 173
• X: 195
• XI: 213
• XII: 215

About the author

Russell King is Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research and Professor of the Geography Department at the University of Sussex. His previous books include "Mass Migration in Europe", and "The History of Human Migration".

Mai is Morris Ginsberg Fellow in Sociology at the London School of Economics.

Schwandner-Sievers is Lecturer and Nash Fellow in Albanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The new Albanian migration
• Editors: Russell King, Nicola Mai, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1903900786, 9781903900789
• Length: 218 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Sociology / General