Coming Home? Patterns and Characteristics of Return Migration in Kyrgyzstan

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Urban/Rural development and living standards
  • Labour markets and employment

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration
  • Return migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Economics facilitating travel & migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Age-related migration consequences

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Diaspora engagement policies
  • Return policies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Russian Federation