| Abstract [eng] |
Lithuania as the leading country with the highest degree of emigration in European Union faces the negative outcomes of this process, because the probability of social, economic, political and demographic threats is rising. For this reason, it is essential to study not only aspects of emigration, but also analyze factors which stimulate remigration and could reduce the degree of emigration or could allow to manage it, at the same time analyzing the characteristics of reintegration in homeland, which could contribute to this end. The aspect of reintegration of remigrants usually is separated from the whole process of emigration, paying most attention to statistical data collection in regard to emigration and remigration and also to the analysis of the reasons for leaving the homeland, to the research of integration characteristics in foreign countries. Whereas all these aspects are closely related to the process of reintegration, has influence for the results of its analysis, because of the link between the choice of leaving and coming back, the connections between the integration in foreign countries and homeland. In Lithuania the qualitative research of reintegration is applied rarely, but it supplements and extends the results of quantitative research. That is why the main aim of this paper is to analyze the aspects of remigrants in Lithuania in the context of emigration and remigration, because reintegration is closely related to them. Reaching for this aim, there are presented in this paper the tendencies of emigration and remigration in Lithuania, are studied their causes, assessed disadvantages and benefits, given attention for explaining the reasons of remigrants coming back to homeland and means to stimulate remigration. While at the empirical level there are striven to analyze the reintegration experience and to identify characteristics of it. In summary, there could be stated that the experience of remigrants’ reintegration in Lithuania is varying, though economic and psychological characteristics of adjustment in homeland dominate. Remigrant who is integrating in Lithuania could be defined as a person who left it for economic incentives, but came back because of psychological integration problems in foreign countries, who gained useful and significant experience and seeks to apply it for implementation of positive changes in homeland, who objectively assesses his/ her economic welfare limited perspectives in Lithuania, though acknowledges that attachment to it, to familiar environment and people is stronger than influence of negatively formed image of country. |
