Return Migration and Regional Economic Problems by Russell King

Author:Russell King [King, Russell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781138854369
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

PRIMARY SURVEY DATA

It is now obvious that in the course of the migration cycle, a regional redistribution of the population takes place as the return to Greece is often the final step in what is primarily a rural-urban migration. Switching over to the survey results and examining the origin of the returnees interviewed, the significant differences between Athens and Salonica on the one hand and Serres on the other are obvious. Only 15.7 per cent of those returning to Athens had spent most of their first 15 years of life there. In Salonica the proportion was 21.3 per cent but in Serres it was 60.3 per cent (see Table 6.2). Nearly half the emigrants returning to Athens grew up in a rural area, and prior to emigration 29.1 per cent had lived in communities with less than 2,000 inhabitants. The proportion of respondents in Athens who had already lived in Athens prior to emigration is 48.6 per cent. In Salonica 42.6 per cent had already lived there. But in Serres only 28.6 per cent of the returnees had not lived there before. Of Table 6.2’s total of 567 returning migrants, 51 per cent returned to the place they had left, but this overall figure is somewhat misleading due to the above-mentioned differences between the large cities and Serres.

Table 6.2: Domicile during First 15 years of Life and Prior to Emigration, by Current Domicile (figures column per cent)

Current Domicile

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