To date, discussions on migrants' integration and returnees' reintegration have been kept apart. With the increased salience of return migration, reintegration schemes have gained importance, not only for European countries aiming at preventing further migration after return but also for migrants' countries of origin. However, research on reintegration from the perspective of transnational migration governance is still scarce. This article thus contributes to the advancement of theoretical approaches to return and reintegration policies by showing how core rationales of migrant integration in Europe spill over to the context of reintegration beyond the continent. Drawing from an ethnographic research project on gender, return migration and reintegration in West Africa, we compare the European key actors' perceptions of (re)integration, in the cases of Germany and Switzerland, with those of their counterparts in Guinea and Senegal. Moreover, we touch on how the returnees and their families and communities perceive the key actors' definitions of reintegration. Our results show the different ways in which Eurocentric expectations and rationales of migrant integration come to shape their reintegration support schemes in the countries of return. These include the narrowly defined target groups, the paradigm of ‘promoting and demanding’, which currently gravitates towards the principle of ‘demanding and controlling’, a high priority on economic (re)integration, and accountability.

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欧洲一体化的理由如何影响几内亚和塞内加尔的重返社会援助


迄今为止，关于移民融入和返乡者重返社会的讨论一直被分开。随着回国移民的日益重要，重返社会计划变得越来越重要，不仅对旨在防止回国后进一步移民的欧洲国家，而且对移民的原籍国也是如此。然而，从跨国移民治理的角度对重返社会的研究仍然很少。因此，本文通过展示欧洲移民融入的核心理由如何蔓延到欧洲大陆以外的重新融入背景，为回归和重返社会政策的理论方法的进步做出了贡献。借鉴一个关于西非性别、回流移民和重返社会的民族志研究项目，我们将德国和瑞士的欧洲主要行为者对（重新）融入的看法与几内亚和塞内加尔的同行进行了比较。此外，我们还谈到了返乡者及其家人和社区如何看待关键行为者对重返社会的定义。我们的结果表明，以欧洲为中心的移民融入期望和理由以不同的方式塑造了他们在回国的重返社会支持计划。这些包括狭义的目标群体、“促进和要求”的范式，目前倾向于“要求和控制”的原则，高度重视经济（再）一体化和问责制。