Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review motivational factors driving migration return
by assessing both push and pull factors that influence return intentions. The study aims to …

Over the past two decades, globalisation has propelled millions of economic migrants from
poor sending-nations to seek employment in economically better-off receiving-nations, often …

More than twenty years ago, one of us wrote:'Return migration is the great unwritten chapter
in the history of migration'(King, 2000, p. 7). Is this bold assertion still true? Almost certainly …

Narratives are increasingly cited by scholars, international organisations, NGOs, and
governments as one of the most powerful factors in migration politics and policymaking …

" Global Migration beyond Limits carefully considers but ultimately rejects the idea that
migration is driven by the choices of individual migrants, and instead starts from the idea that …

Discussions on migration and development geography have both suffered from 'ageism': an
overwhelming preoccupation with children and the young in the latter and widespread …

This paper examines social and migratory trajectories of involuntary return, with a focus on
Ghanaian labour migrants who have engaged in high-risk and precarious migration …

Academic and policy domains are increasingly constructing 'migration as adaptation'as a
policy ideal against alarmist, security-oriented approaches to the climate-migration nexus …

Background Return migration, the process of migrants returning to their countries of origin, is
a vital aspect of migration that has received growing attention in recent years. One area of …

Conclusion At every stage of the Special Issue editorial process, we have been acutely
aware of the danger that research on migration and research and innovation, while …