ABSTRACT
This chapter systematizes the knowledge, research and debates around return mobility in transnational spaces and their intangible outcomes, especially in the context of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) part of the EU. It focuses in particular on what people bring back home with them in addition to economic remittances, social remittances and political remittances. Transnational returns include split-household returns; circulatory and seasonal moves back and forth; double returns, i.e. when a migrant returns to a destination country after spending some time in their country of origin; transnational visits, also referred to as inspection visits, before a return for a longer period; recreational returns; and returns considering residence and settlement with an open-end approach that one can go abroad again. In the early 1990s, after the Iron Curtain had fallen, CEE began a complex post-communist political, economic and social transformation.
