With @ManesWeissk & @MarianaSeMendes we wrote earlier on CEE workers flying to work in the West during COVID-19
Georgiev discusses the opposite trend: 550,000(!) Bulgarians traveled back to Bulgaria in March-May 2020 to be with family/due to loss of jobs/1 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/08/western-europe-is-losing-its-immigrants/?fbclid=IwAR0n310N1S9kgKxbnjIjpt4u3bD049W-OyUPBWvgIxISonJGxDkrTuG7ZoA
Western Europe Is Losing Its Immigrants

Eastern Europeans are returning home in droves. Here’s what that means for Eastern Europe’s economies—and the European Union.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/08/western-europe-is-losing-its-immigrants/?fbclid=IwAR0n310N1S9kgKxbnjIjpt4u3bD049W-OyUPBWvgIxISonJGxDkrTuG7ZoA
In many places returnees amounted to 4-8% of the working population. The data in the article is amazing. Still, I doubt that small BG towns with no industry can absorb these workers. What this shows rather is that CEE provides a labor reserve to be rapidly shed when crisis hits/2
I would be interested in what
@NikolovaMadlen thinks about this data.
With @fraubalhorn they wrote one of the best pieces on CEE emigration during COVID19 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/migrant-workers-strawberry-farms-england-bulgaria-eu-coronavirus /3
The EU’s Seasonal Farm Workers Are Still Forced to Travel During the Pandemic

Photos of Eastern Europeans flown West to pick strawberries despite the lockdown has focused attention on the plight of the EU’s migrant farm laborers. But as some of these workers told Jacobin,...

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/migrant-workers-strawberry-farms-england-bulgaria-eu-coronavirus
What is more interesting is how returning emigrants affected the mass anti-government protests in Bulgaria. With @Tom_Junes we wrote a paper earlier on how emigration affects protest. This is also class-based since many returning BG students participated in the 2020 protests. /4
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0888325420902246 /5
Voice after Exit? Bulgarian Civic Activists between Protest and Emigration - Julia Rone, Tom Junes,...

This article belongs to a forthcoming special cluster, “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in Southeast Europe” guest-edited by Nemanja Džuvero...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0888325420902246
It would be interesting to know whether similar patterns of emigrants returning to their home countries have been observed also in Southern Europe.
@ForumMIDEM just published a great report on emigration patterns in the EU: https://forum-midem.de/publikationen/ 
EN version coming out soon! /6
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