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Overcoming the crisis : the changing profile and trajectories of Latvian migrants

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Date
2017
Author
McCollum, David
Apsite-Berina, Elina
Berzins, Maris
Krisjane, Zaiga
Keywords
Emigration
Economic crisis
Latvia
Online survey
Labour migration
H Social Sciences
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
NDAS
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
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Abstract
Taking mobility between Latvia and Western Europe as an empirical lens, this analysis explores the complex relationship between spatial disparities in earning potential and migration. The very dramatic shifts in the economic and political context against which migration from Latvia has occurred over the period 2004-2012 make it an especially apposite focus of research investigating the link between mobility and labour market circumstances. As an analytical starting point, conventional economic theory broadly explains the movement of workers from lower to higher wage regions. However this investigation seeks to contribute to understandings of the economic drivers of migration through consideration of the effects of the Great Recession on not only the volume of flows from Latvia to higher wage economies elsewhere in Europe, but also on the characteristics of the migrants themselves and of the processes that produce their mobility. This is undertaken through analysis of a large scale online survey of Latvian emigrants in five European countries. The findings point towards the Great Recession creating a distinctive cohort of reluctant ‘crisis migrants’. Analytically the quantitative and qualitative attributes of this new phase of mobility raise a number of conceptually significant questions about understandings of the economy – migration nexus.
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McCollum , D , Apsite-Berina , E , Berzins , M & Krisjane , Z 2017 , ' Overcoming the crisis : the changing profile and trajectories of Latvian migrants ' , Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , vol. 43 , no. 9 , pp. 1508-1525 . https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1232161
Publication
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1232161
ISSN
1369-183X
Type
Journal article
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1232161
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The work was funded by the National Research Programme [grant number 5.2.4] and the Latvian Council of Sciences [grant number 514/2012].
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12973

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