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This project studies the links between migrants' integration and their transnational engagement. Over the past couple of decades, rich empirical research in the field of transnational migration studies has highlighted that migrants engage in transnational mobility for an array of reasons, ranging from economic motives to emotional or political ties with their country of origin. They develop transnational business, trade, investments, or social and cultural programmes and circulate between their two countries.
Research objectives:
ITHACA aims to explore the interconnections between the integration process and transnational mobility of migrants by answering three key questions:
• To what extent, and in what ways, do integration conditions in the country of destination encourage transnational mobility?
• What are the conditions in the country of origin that encourage transnational mobility?
• What type of transfers take place through the transnational mobility of migrants?
To study these questions, ITHACA examines the links between integration and transnational mobility in regard to four countries of destination (Austria, Italy, Spain and the UK) and altogether five countries of origin (Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Morocco, the Philippines and Ukraine). ICMPD is responsible for conducting the Austrian case study. The groups studied in Austria include Bosnians, Indians, Filipinos and Ukrainians.
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