Chapter
The Celebratory Story of Returnees’ Contribution to Development
Conceptual and Analytical Framework
2: Successive Flops and Occasional Feats: Development Contributions and Thorny Social Navigation Among Congolese Return Migrants
A Brief Background to Congolese Return Migration and the Context of Return
Some Notes on Methodology
Engaging in New ‘Innovative’ Business?
Conducting Business Differently?
The Main Challenges: Social Capital and Networks
3: Diaspora Returnees to Somaliland: Heroes of Development or Job-Stealing Scoundrels?
Background to Migration Out of Somaliland
Dhaqan Ceelis and Changing Cultural Norms
Support to Civil Society Organisations
Private Investment: A Partnership Between Local, Diaspora and Returnee Investors
4: Pushing Development: A Case Study of Highly Skilled Male Return Migration to Ghana
Methodological Considerations
Return Migration to Ghana
Preparing and Managing Return
Recognising and Seizing Opportunities
Translocal and Transnational Citizenries
Narratives of Excellence and Leadership
5: ‘Come Back, Invest, and Advance the Country’: Policy Myths and Migrant Realities of Return and Development in Senegal
Economic Advancement Expectations and Senegalese Policy Myths
The Business Logics of Return Migrant Investors in Senegal
Capital Repatriation or Home-Held Capital? Business Logics and Social Networks
Understandings of Success and Commitment to Personal and National Good
6: The Role of Social Capital in Post-Conflict Business Development: Perspectives from Returning Migrants in Burundi
The Theoretical Framework
The Economic Field in Burundi
Returnees as Actors in the Economic Field
Social Capital in the Burundian Economic Field
Activating, Building and Maintaining Social Capital
7: Threatening Miniskirts: Returnee South Sudanese Adolescent Girls and Social Change
The Evolving Post-War Environment in South Sudan and Research Methods
Settling in and Social Change
Diverse Experiences of Girls’ Settling In: Threatening Miniskirts and Transforming Gender and Generational Order
Returnee Girls and Their Ambiguous Positions in Relation to Change
Return as a Gendered and Generational Patchwork
8: Obstacles and Openings: Returnees and Small-Scale Businesses in Cape Verde
Returnees and Small-Scale Businesses in Africa
Returnees’ Involvement in Business Activities
A Globalising Island Economy
The Questionable Advantage of Being a Returnee
Openings: Exploiting a Small and Competitive Market
Africa's Return Migrants
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