The decision to emigrate: a study from the perspective of dispositional plurality

Authors

  • João Teixeira Lopes
  • José Pedro Silva
  • Rafaela Ganga
  • Rui Machado Gomes
  • Dulce Magalhães
  • Henrique Vaz
  • Luísa Cerdeira
  • Sílvia Silva
  • Paulo Peixoto
  • Maria de Lourdes Machado
  • Rui Brites
  • Tomás Patrocínio
  • Belmiro Gil Cabrito

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP2016817484

Keywords:

individual portrait, high-skilled emigration, brain drain

Abstract

This paper analyses the Portuguese high-skilled emigration, focusing on the emigration decision-making process. This article aims to understand the dispositions leading to this decision, and the social processes that explain its origin, sedimentation and activation. To this end, and using the theoretical and methodological approach of Bernard Lahire, 53 sociological portraits of skilled Portuguese who emigrated to other European countries are cross-sectional analyzed. This analysis is supplemented by data from a survey previously administered. Thus, we will address how the migratory dispositions are built through the individual biographies, highlighting the heuristic potential of the individual observation scale.

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Published

2016-06-07

Issue

No. 81 (2016)

Section

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