A population on the move: migration and gender relations in Albania
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-08, 11:53authored byRussell King, Julie Vullnetari
Under the harshest communist regime in Europe, emigration from Albania was impossible, and internal migration was tightly controlled. After 1990, everything changed. Twenty years later, 1.4 million Albanians, equivalent to half of Albania’s resident population, live abroad; internal migration has also taken place on a massive scale. This paper describes these largescale migrations within the broader setting of ‘post-Wall’ European mobility and relates them to the changing context of gender relations in Albania.
History
Publication status
Published
Journal
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
ISSN
1752-1378
Publisher
Cambridge Political Economy Society and Oxford University Press