Should I stay or should I go now? Exploring Polish women's returns “home”

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Can the Concept of Lifestyle Migration be applied to Return Migration? The Case of Estonians in the UK

“…Our analysis emphasises that return plans are driven not only by life stage considerations of the individual migrant, but also by concerns about the future welfare and education of the offspring. Previous findings also indicate that return is often related to predicted or unpredicted changes in the family structure or needs (Eurofound, ; Duda‐Mikulin, ). The prevalent role of life choices motivated by planning for a family leads us to our next main point.…”

“…Erdal and Ezzati () suggest multiple temporal factors exist, which influence a migrant's potential return decisions such as having school‐going children in the host country or elderly parents in need of care in the country of origin. Other authors have stressed family planning as a vital point of return (Corcoran, ; Ní Laoire, ; Duda‐Mikulin, ). In a similar way to the transnationalist paradigm, however, this strand usually depicts return due to familial reasons, as connected to emotional links with the country of origin as well as the proximity of relatives (Ní Laoire, ).…”

“…This article intends to widen the scope of lifestyle migration research by introducing lifestyle motivated return migration among highly skilled Estonians in London. The topic of return migration by Eastern Europeans has been understudied (see some examples Martin and Radu, ; Vlase, ; Parutis, ; Duda‐Mikulin, ), especially considering the vast amount of research carried out on Eastern European migration in general (Drinkwater et al, ; Black et al, ; Ciupijus, ; Drinkwater and Garapich, ). Several Eastern European countries have experienced steady return migration, including Estonia, which in recent years has had more return migrants than emigrants (Tammur, Äär and Meres, ).…”

Why Do People Flee? Revisiting Forced Migration in Post-Saddam Baghdad

“…Such actions lead to Bmore labels and fewer refugees^as Zetter (2007) puts it, and the stigmatization of refugees in political rhetoric and media (Goodman et al 2017) counters scientific evidence that economic variables are not the most significant drivers of the intention to migrate. Recent work by Duda-Mikulin (2018) shows that as migrants are becoming more mobile, their various motivations to migrate are increasingly inseparable and require an approach that captures the dynamism of decision making by considering the Bintersection^of motivations. We agree.…”

More than Money: The Importance of Social Exchanges for Temporary Low‐Skilled Migrant Workers’ Workplace Satisfaction

“…Moreover, the social exchange view supports the view regarding migrant workers as agents. Scholars on migration highlighted the important role of agentic choice and behaviour of social actors in immigration theories alongside the structural constraints (Bakewell, ; Duda‐Mikulin, ). When unsatisfied, they make volitional decisions to be absent from work or decide to leave the workplace (Chin et al, ).…”