1 Introduction 1.1 Why link internal and international migration in development? 1.2 Albania: Some background notes 1.3 About the book 1.4 Methods and sites of data collection 1.5 Some ethical issues 1.6 Book outline 2 The migration-development nexus 2.1 Internal and international migration: Towards an integrated approach 2.2 Migration and development 2.3 Social fields: Linking internal and international migration 2.4 Conclusion 3 Albanian migration and development 3.1 Historical migration 3.2 Albania 1945-1990: An era of no migration? 3.3 ‘A new migration order’: Contemporary migration in Albania 3.4 Trends and patterns of internal migration 3.5 Combined developmental effects of internal and international migration 3.6 Conclusion 4 Leaving home: Migration patterns and dynamics 4.1 General patterns and destinations 4.2 Differences between the two types of migration 4.3 Sequencing internal and international migration 4.4 Conclusion 5 Across the border: Migrants in Thessaloniki 5.1 Leaving Albania and arriving in Thessaloniki 5.2 Identity and survival, or strategies to ‘fit in’ 5.3 The nightmare of ‘papers’: The effect of ineffective immigration policy 5.4 Work and gendered labour markets 5.5 Housing and spatial location 5.6 Incorporation, assimilation and return: Between myth and reality 5.7 Conclusion 6 Family, migration and socio-economic change 6.1 The difference that money makes: Remittances 6.2 Social remittances or the wisdom of a traveller 6.3 ‘I am a man and a woman’, or the gendered household 6.4 Migration as a rite of passage for young men 6.5 Transnational family and care 6.6 Conclusion 7 Migration and Albania’s dynamic transformation 7.1 The village, the city and the rural town 7.2 Albania’s socio-economic polarisation revisited 7.3 Conclusion 8 Conclusions and recommendations 8.1 Dynamics of internal and international migration in development processes 8.2 Migration and development: The role of policy 8.3 Achievements and limitations of the study and future research