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One of the most important capitals in each country is the professional human resources. No doubt, to develop a country, the role of universities ‘ faculty members is most important one. The aim of this article is to study the intervening and consequential factors of return migration of faculty members in public universities of Tehran. To do the research, the qualitative method was used, and the data – founded method (Grand Theory) was emphasized. The population is the public university faculty members who have had return migration from 1390 to now. The sample was thirty faculty members who were chosen using theoretical saturation. The findings were approved and improved by those who were expert in this subject. In this research, the data was collected using intensive and semi-structured interview. After the interviews which had been done with faculty members were analyzed, a conceptual framework was formed using faculty members’ interpretations. The findings were indicative of some intervening factors which were in the form of financial incapability and governing policies and also showed the consequential factors which were in the form of economical, social- cultural and psychological effects. After the above-mentioned categories were considered, the category “collective agency, function and structure” were chosen as the nucleus category.

This paper seeks to identify the contexts and grounds affecting the repatriation migration of university professors to the country during the last ten years using the grounded Theory approach and indepth interviews. The study population comprise of the university faculty members who have had the expereince of return migration to Iran. The sampling was conducted using purposeful and snowballing until theoretical saturation. The findings showed that the causal factors affecting the return migration include economical factors (welfare problems in relation to their salary and high expenses of life abroad), social factors (the feeling of social injustice, the vague status of employment, the feeling of social despair and the lack of social capital) and personal and motivational factors (family belonging and the sensation to improve the scientific level of Iran). Apart from the above mentioned causal factors, the underlying factors of "psychological" (psychological problems and emotional belongings of the individual) as well as "job-scientific" factors (the possibility of employment and job repulsion), along with interventional factors such as "lack of financial capacity" as well as associated policies (immigration and occupational) play a role in the occurrence of this phenomenon, which indicates the multidimensionality and intertwining of structural, environmental and agent factors which inlfuence together the return migration.