Migrants’ Intention to Move or Stay in their Initial Destination

Sapeha, Halina

doi:10.1111/imig.12304

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“…Moreover, social capital has an influence on migratory intentions (Cassarino 2004), in which highly skilled occupations often require spatial flexibility (van Ham et al 2001). Several studies also showed a positive correlation between educational level and migration intentions, arguing that higher levels of education increase employment opportunities and access to information (Coulter et al 2011;Sapeha 2017;Ette et al 2016), thereby decreasing the relative cost of migration.…”

Section: Remigration Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrants’ Intentions – Leaning Towards Remigration or Naturalization?

Steiner

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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Today’s patterns of migration move on a continuum from long-term and permanent to increasingly temporary and fluid. In this context, it is central to understand immigrants’ intentions with respect to naturalization and remigration, not least because these intentions summarize the respondent’s attitude towards the migration experience. Using data from the Migration-Mobility Survey, this chapter tests in a multinomial logistic regression the effect of four sets of factors (demographics, transnational ties, feasibility, and integration) on four types of intentions: naturalization, settlement, remigration, and naturalization and remigration in conjunction. The results show that 34% of the recently arrived migrants in Switzerland express naturalization intentions, 34% settlement intentions and 26% remigration intentions. Although the first two types are largely explained by social integration, remigration intentions are determined by a weak labour market and social integration. However, the relationship between the level of integration and immigrants’ intentions is more complex because for 6% of the sample, both remigration and naturalization present an option. Finally, the chapter emphasizes how a high educational attainment fosters the migrant’s agency to choose whatever migratory trajectory they desire to follow, despite the more restrictive migration regime that Switzerland has introduced for non-EU/EFTA nationals.

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Section: Remigration Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrants’ Intentions – Leaning Towards Remigration or Naturalization?

Steiner

2019

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“…Moreover, social capital has an influence on migratory intentions , in which highly skilled occupations often require spatial flexibility (van Ham et al 2001). Several studies also showed a positive correlation between educational level and migration intentions, arguing that higher levels of education increase employment opportunities and access to information (Coulter et al 2011;Sapeha 2017;Ette et al 2016), thereby decreasing the relative cost of migration.…”

Section: Remigration Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, according to Pungas et al (2012), over-education in the labour market, and therefore job dissatisfaction, is associated with an elevated willingness to return. However, not only job and career situation and prospects (Sapeha 2017) but also housing situation (Waldorf 1995), personal life and family satisfaction (Khoo and Mak 2000;Jensen and Pedersen 2007), the subjective well-being associated with the stay (Steiner and Velling 1992), or an experience of racism and discrimination (Steinmann 2018;de Haas et al 2015) are important factors for remigration intentions.…”

Section: Remigration Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus

2019

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“…Increasingly, scholars have highlighted that migration is no longer a one-way movement between a country of origin and a destination, because migrants move through and settle in several locations in their life trajectories (e.g. Ossman, 2004;Ciobanu, 2015;Toma and Castagnone, 2015;Sapeha, 2016). Recent literature has shown that following arrival at the initial destination, migrants keep moving in order to fulfil their aspirations and expectations (Ahrens et al, 2014;Morrison & Sacchetto, 2014;Nekby, 2006).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%