Appartenenze “mobili”: il ritorno come strategia metodologica e lente interpretativa nelle migrazioni dei rudari romeni e delle donne capoverdiane

he essay explores the multiple forms of migratory return, conceived as an open, circular, and relational process. Through two long-term ethnographies – among Cape Verdean migrant wom-en,especially rabidantes, and Rudari families in rural Romania – the authors show how returns, mobile and plural, renegotiate identity, gender, labour, and transnational belonging. Return thus emerges as a space of reflexivity, transformation, and the production of new situated knowledges