Navigating a river by its bends: a study on transnational social networks as resources for the transformation of Cambodia

Abstract

Regarding debates on the contribution of returnees to an emergent nation, findings in this multisited casestudy bring forward that ideas of return held by the three parties involved may force remigrants into transnationalism in both host and home countries. Findings also demonstrate that social capital may be seen as a resource or a restraint in the lives of returnees.

The migration and development nexus in Morocco: an embedded study of French, German and Dutch returnee entrepreneurship support

“…More often than not the migrants' intentions to return temporarily or permanently are not clear, or cannot be met (Bilgili & Siegel, 2016). Migrant research agrees that economic activity aimed at self-sufficiency is indeed migrants' top priority (Dustmann & Kirchkamp, 2002;Tsuda, 2009;Wijers, 2013). This is part of being poorly informed, as research shows that entrepreneuring is practiced also when there are no direct alternatives for survival.…”

“…This sense of being considered a guilty runaway who should repay his debts to society is not unfamiliar to other remigrants Morocco and others places inthe world (see, among others: LaCroix, 2009aLaCroix, , 2009bTsuda, 2009;Wijers, 2013)…”