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- Title
Family Influences on Migration Intentions: The Role of Past Experience of Involuntary Immobility.
- Authors
Brunarska, Zuzanna; Ivlevs, Artjoms
- Abstract
The article examines the relationship between past experience of involuntary immobility in a family and the current migration intentions of its members. While family migration experience has been shown to be positively related to migration intentions, the role of past unrealised migration intentions in a family is understudied. Using the case of the former communist bloc, we focus on the migration intentions of people whose family members' mobility aspirations were stifled by the restrictive political regime. Drawing on data from the Life in Transition III Survey, we show that close relatives of people who had been prohibited from going abroad under communist rule are more likely to report migration intentions compared with people without such family experience. We explain these findings with the intergenerational transmission of mobility aspirations.
- Subjects
EMIGRATION &; immigration; FAMILIES; CULTURAL transmission; POSTCOMMUNISM; INTENTION
- Publication
Sociology, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 5, p1060
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00380385221136060