This study aims to influence policy making and to present recommendations which will prevent illegal migration, and reintegrate returnees’ back into society. This is a primary step towards an analysis of the migration phenomenon. Each datum is a source of study and a more profound and profiled analysis, allowing other authors to analyse the phenomenon of migration from other perspectives.
Albania’s migration flows have been the result of a number of ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors that act at individual, family, community and national levels, and have changed over time. Estimates of Albanians living abroad in 2001 are in the range of 600,000-700,000, or about one-fifth of the population. These results are high figures for a country where international migration is a relatively recent phenomenon.
