Professional Trajectories and Factors for Sustainable Return of Highly Qualified Bulgarians
Professional Trajectories and Factors for Sustainable Return of Highly Qualified Bulgarians

Author(s): Vanya Ivanova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Migration Studies
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: Sustainable Return; Highly Qualified Returnees; Professional Trajectories; Civil Activism; Bulgaria
Summary/Abstract: The article will explore the motivation factors and professional trajectories of young highly qualified Bulgarians who returned to Bulgaria in the years around 2010. In this longitudinal study, participants’ responses upon their return will be compared to their current situation through secondary qualitative interviews about 10 years later. The analysis in the paper will focus on three important aspects of the highly qualified return experience: (1) sustainability of the return – are the highly qualified returnees still in Bulgaria, did they have possibilities to re-migrate, and what is their attitude towards the return decision looking at it retrospectively; (2) professional realization, how their professional trajectories have developed through time, are they working in the same area as upon their return; (3) other factors of sustainable return and (4), civil activism, to what extend returnees participate in different forms of civil initiatives, viewed as an additional form of contributing to the Bulgarian society.

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