Living here, owning there? Transnational property ownership and migrants’ (im)mobility considerations beyond return

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• dc.contributor.author Bertelli, Davide
• dc.contributor.author Erdal, Marta B.
• dc.contributor.author Coşciug, Anatolie
• dc.contributor.author Kussy, Angelina
• dc.contributor.author Mikiewicz, Gabriella
• dc.contributor.author Szulecki, Kacper
• dc.contributor.author Tulbure, Corina
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-03-03T07:20:07Z
• dc.date.available 2025-03-03T07:20:07Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract Migrants’ property ownership in their countries of origin is often understood through the prism of return: both intended and actual return mobilities. Applying a transnational optic, this article unpacks the relationships between migrants’ property ownership ‘back home’ and their reflections on future moves and stays, not limited to possible return. We draw on 80 semi-structured interviews conducted in 2020 with Polish and Romanian migrants living in Barcelona and Oslo. They left their homeland, sometimes following domestic migration or international migration to other countries, before arriving in Spain and Norway. Based on these case studies of East–West migration within Europe, we contribute to work recognising the ongoing complex and diversified nature of mobilities in Europe. First, we detail what migrants’ property ownership looks like in practice – forms of ownership, types of property, location. Second, we focus on how owning property in Poland or Romania intersects with migrants’ considerations about moving or staying in the future, beyond return. Considerations about future (im)mobility shed light on transnational relationships, as these evolve over time and across space. Furthermore, we find that transnational property ownership in their countries of origin reveals much about migrants’ relations with people and places ‘back home’ and reflects the known non-linearity of migration stories. Overall, however, transnational property ownership is a poor predictor of both return plans and intentions.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Bertelli D, Erdal MB, Coşciug A, Kussy A, Mikiewicz G, Szulecki K, et al. Living here, owning there? Transnational property ownership and migrants’ (im)mobility considerations beyond return. Cent East Eur Migr Rev. 2022;11(2):53-67. DOI: 10.54667/ceemr.2022.09
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.54667/ceemr.2022.09
• dc.identifier.issn 2300-1682
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69761
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Uniwersytet Warszawsk
• dc.relation.ispartof Central and Eastern European Migration Review. 2022;11(2):53-67
• dc.rights © The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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• dc.subject.keyword Returnen
• dc.subject.keyword (im)mobilityen
• dc.subject.keyword Propertyen
• dc.subject.keyword Lifecourseen
• dc.subject.keyword Timeen
• dc.subject.keyword Polanden
• dc.subject.keyword Romaniaen
• dc.title Living here, owning there? Transnational property ownership and migrants’ (im)mobility considerations beyond returnen
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