‘Why did you return?’: North-South return migration and family ties in the case of Iran

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Migrant communities and networks
  • Transnational ties

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Transnational migration
  • Return migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Diasporas and transnational communities
  • Family relations and migration

• Transversal consequences

  • Reincorporation of return migrants

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Family reunification policies
  • Return policies

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Migration research and theory

  • Development of migration studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Iran (Islamic Republic Of)