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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1060-1077 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Sociology |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2023 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords*
- intergenerational transmission
- involuntary immobility
- involuntary non-migrants
- migration aspirations
- migration intentions
- post-communist countries
Field of Science*
- 5.6 Political science
- 5.4 Sociology
- 5.9 Other social sciences
Publication Type*
- 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database