| Abstract [eng] |
The growing demand for highly skilled professionals in the 21st century is associated with the processes of globalization and knowledge-based economies. It inevitably involves in that process and Lithuania that owing to emigration of highly skilled professionals – especially in certain areas of natural sciences and technology - faces the various challenges. However, is seen missing of theoretical and empirical research to interpret the international migration of natural science and technology professionals. Moreover, in spite of emigration of professionals, many of them do not migrate. This fact increases the need to include the professionals without migratory experience for analysis of migration decision-making process in order to reveal situations, in which the incentive to migrate is not appeared or is inhibited. Dissertation research goal is to explore the migration decision-making process of professionals of natural sciences and technology. The research methodology is based on R. Stones strong structuration theory perspective, which of the conceptual axis is the quadripartite nature of structuration. Qualitative research-based dissertation used a semi-structured interview with professionals of natural sciences and technology having and having not migratory experience. According to their stories, the international migration process is seen through professionals’ education, employment, and family, social ties, lifestyle, and expectations lenses. The research revealed, how natural sciences and technology professionals assess the opportunities to migrate abroad, what kind of situations has a positive impact on migratory decisions, by what way international migration penetrates destinies of these people, how complex, non-linear is the migratory decision-formation process and how sensitive it is within changing conditions of professionals‘ situations. |
