Who goes? Who stays? Who returns?

The subject of this book are migration journeys of highly skilled workers. By focusing on migration as a journey, the research considers all stages of migration (remigration in particular) and complements the approach to the phenomenon with a life-long perspective. In this sense, the prism of migration journeys allows to look at migration motives in a novel manner. The book discloses motive as a complex phenomenon, which may also change over time. The chosen perspective helps to explain why under similar conditions some workers migrate while others do not, and in the same manner, why some remigrate, while others stay put in destination countries. The empirical basis for the case of highly skilled (re)migration from Russia to Germany has been constituted by unstructured interviews with narrative parts, which were conducted by the author in various cities of Germany and Russia.

Autorentext

Volha Vysotskaya holds PhD from Bremen International School of Social Sciences (Germany). She also holds a diploma degree in Linguistics from Minsk State Linguistics University (Belarus). The author has been involved in projects at Research Network 1989 and is a member of Changing Europe network.

Inhalt

Contents: Highly Skilled Migration Russia Germany Migration Motives Remigration Family Networks Economic Theories of Migration Complexity of Motive Structure Qualitative Content Analysis Discourse Analysis.