Africa's Return Migrants

Lisa Åkesson is associate professor in social anthropology at the School of Global Studies, the University of Gothenburg, and senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute.Maria Eriksson Baaz is associate professor at the School of Global Studies, the University of Gothenburg, and senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute. She is the co-author (with Maria Stern) of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? (Zed Books, 2013) and the author of The Paternalism of Partnership (Zed Books, 2005).

• 1. Introduction - Lisa Åkesson and Maria Eriksson Baaz2. Successive flops and occasional feats: development contributions and thorny social navigation among Congolese return migrants - Maria Eriksson Baaz3. Diaspora returnees to Somaliland: heroes of development or job-stealing scoundrels? - Laura Hammond4. Pushing development: a case study of highly skilled male return migration to Ghana - Nauja Kleist5. 'Come back, invest, and advance the country': policy myths and migrant realities of return and development in Senegal - Giulia Sinatti6. The role of social capital in post-conflict business development: perspectives from returning migrants in Burundi -Tove Heggli Sagmo7. Threatening mini-skirts: returnee South Sudanese adolescent girls and social change - Katarzyna Grabska8. Obstacles and openings: returnees and small-scale businesses in Cape Verde - Lisa Åkesson

Policies seeking to court return migration, their reintegration, and their constructive engagement in the development of home communities will find the incisive research findings of this book highly pragmatic.