The Re(production) of Restless Bodies: Freedom of Movement and Social Reproduction
| Published date | 01 October 2021 |
| Author | Raia Apostolova |
| Date | 01 October 2021 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12811 |
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International Migration. 2021;59:166–179.
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INTRODUCTION
Emigration fro m Bulgaria tends to create mor al panics about an immin ent extinction of the nat ion and a potential
economic collapse (A ngelov, 2015). Un employment an d poverty are the main emigr ation trigger s (Bogdanov &
Rangelova , 2012), with Spain, th e U.K. and Germany b eing the most desi red destination s. Bulgaria's demog raphic
strategy is increasingly being focused upon the securing of return migration of its citizens (Council of Minis ters,
2012). State institutions rely on a sc ientifically based typolog y of returning migrants in order to analyse the m ost
stable factors linked to return b ut also in order to identify the predetermining factors for su bsequent and repeti-
tive outward migration (MLSP, 2019: 62–63). As of current ly, the state strategy focuses predominant ly on labour
markets and def ines ‘successful’ reinteg ration in economic terms .
Received: 8 Janu ary 2020
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Revised: 22 Novemb er 2020
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Accepted: 7 Decem ber 2020
DOI: 10 .1111/imig .12811
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
The Re(production) of Restless Bodies: Freedom of
Movement and Social Reproduction
Raia Apostolova
© 2021 The Author s. Internationa l Migration © 2021 IOM
Bulgarian Ac ademy of Sciences , Sofia
Abstract
The article develops the notion of restl ess bodies to ex-
plore the interaction between regimes of social reproduc-
tion and freedom of movement . The notion captures the
methodologica l difficulty to account for ‘return migration’
and goe s beyon d the iso latio n of a singu lar mig ratio n deter-
minant. The a uthor relies on two em pirical cases. The f irst
draws on one hund red inter views wit h ‘return migrants’
in B ulgaria. The second is based on field work conducted
between 2013 and 2015 in G ermany. Both show how the
political economy of movement is characterised by a con-
tradiction bet ween fixity and motion in the context of cap-
ital accumulation and fading welfare state. Th e concerns
at hand are raised both be cause of their methodological
importance but also as a potent ial instrume nt that could
supplement ongoing polic y debates in the field of EU social
security por tability coordination.
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