Return Migration Decisions

A Study on Highly Skilled Chinese in Japan
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-658-16026-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 4148 g

Reihe: Life Course Research

Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet insufficiently explained by migration research: why do migrants deviate from their migration intentions and return sooner or later than planned, or not at all? Her study integrates factors from the spheres of career, family and lifestyle, and redefines stages in long-term decision-making processes, thereby contributing to decision and migration theory. She analyzes migrants’ shifting priorities over the course of migration, including a perspective on life course and on the impact of the triple catastrophe of March 11, 2011.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Achenbach, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Return Migration Decision Making: Theoretical Considerations.- Chinese Migration to Japan: Then and Now.- A Conceptualization of (Locational) Decision-Making Processes.- Impact of Career, Family and Lifestyle Factors on Migrants’ Locational Decisions.

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Achenbach is Academic Coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO) at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on migration in East Asia with a focus on Japan.