61st International Academic Week, Germany | Assoc. Prof. Eda Gemi

Assoc. Prof. Eda Gemi, Head of the Department of Law, participated as a keynote speaker at the 61st International Academic Week organized by the Munich-based Southeast Europe Association (SOG) in cooperation with the Academy for Civic Education in Tutzing, Germany, where more than 30 academics gathered to discuss one of the most challenging topics; that of return migration in Southeastern Europe.
Assoc Prof. Gemi gave a presentation on the topic: “Rethinking Return and Mobility in Southeast Europe: Multiple trajectories of Second-Generation Albanians from Greece and Italy,” based on the book’s findings that Assoc. Prof. Eda Gemi co-authored with Anna Triandafyllidou, published by Routledge in 2021.
Assoc Prof. Gemi proposed a new typology of return, reintegration, and onward mobility of the second-generation Albanians that places return in the middle of the migration experience rather than at its endpoint. According to her, “the experience of migration and return appears to create a significant transnational capital – a propensity towards mobility and intimacy with transnational living that facilitates onward movement. Indeed, Albanian return migration from Greece and Italy in the 2010s is typically a twenty-first-century migration: dynamic and open-ended.”