In Albania’s northern Kukes and Shkodra regions, dozens of schools have shut their doors over the past several years as a result of staggering rates of emigration. Located on the Buna River, known ...

This week’s selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories looks at the influence of growing diasporas on political battles back home, as well as the effects of emigration on areas that are becoming ...

Emanuel Xhindi is a special correspondent for JURIST and a law student in the University of Tirana Faculty of Law in Tirana, Albania. Emigration measures in developing countries are almost always seen ...

Albania's population has significantly declined in the past decade, dropping by 420,000 in 13 years, mainly due to emigration, said the national census published Friday.

For decades after World War II, Albanian enjoyed the fastest natural population growth rate of any country in Europe. But in the decade since the end of Albania's self-imposed Stalinist isolation, ...

International organizations and Albanian officials say Albania, arguably Europe's poorest country, is experiencing a potentially devastating brain drain. Around a sixth of the population -- including ...