Albania on the Move, Links between Internal and International Migration, Links between Internal and International Migration

Author

Vullnetari; Julie

Year

2012

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-9-08964-355-1

Link

Last Update

16-Jul-2026

Keywords

Sociology

Description

Nearly twenty years ago, on a brisk spring morning, with just a bag of personal belongings, I said goodbye to my family and left my village in south-east Albania to step into the foreign world of ‘the abroad’. I was the first woman since the fall of communism in Albania to leave my village to work abroad. It was to be the start of a new life and, at eighteen years old, I felt like I was embarking on the greatest adventure of my life: full of uncertainties of the unknown and the joys and dreams of the desired. My...