ABSTRACT
Prospective re-return migrants will usually possess one resource that provides a means of escape: their prior citizenship of the other country. In this sense, engaging in re-return processes can be linked to (re)securing wellbeing, not only in respect to counteracting the negative impact of the crisis upon personal stability but also in providing a source of relative comfort. This chapter sets out to examine this process, focusing on two potential 're-return' countries: Canada and France. Through narrative analysis, it observes the expectations, encounters and conflicts experienced by returnees when they first arrived in Portugal in the 1980s and 1990s. The chapter then examines re-returns and onward migrations to 'third' countries during the current economic downturn in Portugal, paying particular attention to the impacts of the economic crisis and mobility on psychosocial wellbeing. Within the context of contemporary Portugal, the ongoing economic crisis has destabilised socio-economic and even ontological, identificational security in the lives of our participants.
