جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Migration aspiration » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

Following the importance of studying migration as a possibility in recent migration literature, concepts such as "migration willing" and "staying willing" have been at the center of attention. Migration aspiration is defined as the priority of migration over staying, which is built into the biographical narratives of the potential migrantsIn this study, we have tried to interpret the information obtained from the narrative interview with some respondents by using the thematic narrative analysis. We selected the participants in a purposive sampling from young people between 20- 40 years old living in Isfahan. The findings show that the themes of willing to leave the homeland in the biographical narrative of the participants can be interpreted in three parts: turning points, anternarratives and proleptic reasons. Turning points are often formed by the narrator's interpretation of a specific action or happening in the past of his biography, which was the decisive moment of his decision to migrate; These actions and happenings drive his aspiration and lead to other anternarratives or reasons for migration. anternarratives are other reasons for those who aspire to leave their homeland, which originate from rethinking their personal experiences or knowledge and awareness of the context in which they live. Proleptic reasons are also related to predicting the future of life in the destination country or the future of life in the homeland in the continuation of the practical rationality of those who aspire to migrate.

Migrant networks are sets of interpersonal ties that connect migrants, former migrants, and nonmigrants in origin and destination areas through ties of kinship, friendship, and shared community origin. These networks play an essential role in forming the aspiration to leave or stay in the homeland. Also, potential migrants improve their capacity to migrate by getting information from these networks and their interpretation of their facilitating or encouraging role. In this study, we tried to understand the interaction of potential migrants with these networks by using the qualitative method of narrative analysis. In order to analyze the obtained information, we have used thematic narrative analysis. The participants were selected in a Purposive sampling from young people between 20 and 40 years old living in Isfahan. The findings show that interaction with migration networks was the turning point in the narrative of some narrators about the formation of the aspiration to leave the homeland. The role of migration networks is prominent in the conflict between leaving and staying. Narrators aspire to migrate either because of the encouragement of networks in the homeland and migrant networks in the destination or because of the loss of emotional ties in the homeland. In the capacity-building phase, the aspirants mentally and practically prepare themselves for migration by rejecting or accepting the information sent by the migration networks and their support to facilitate the migration process..

Todays, international migration and movements of populations for achieving better living conditions are increasing. Emigration from Iran, though long overdue, has not only increased in recent years, but also a significant proportion of the population is willing to migrating and seeking to move abroad. Thus, the aim of this article is to measure Iranians' tendency to emigrate from the country and its influencing factors using a secondary analysis of micro‐data form the National Survey of Social Capital with a sample size of 14200 people living in urban and rural areas of Iran. The results showed that those who are eager to emigrate from Iran are mostly men, single, youth, higher education, with low social satisfaction, middle and upper class, and residing in large cities. Therefore, the majority of people with migration aspiration are higher educated and skilled people. In conclusion, migration aspiration has made among the minds of the new young generations. Therefore, it’s expected to increase the international migration from Iran.

The bulk of the existing research on international migration has focused on the macro structural dimensions of this phenomenon. In the case of the migration of Iranians, most of the current discussions revolve around the magnitude of migratory flows; hence, a heavy debate about the statistics of immigration and their validity. In this study, we have tried to capture the social-psychological dimension of immigration, by drawing on the experiences of the Iranian student-migrants and those in the pre-migration phase. The present research aims to study dynamic changes of their images of the destination (Western Countries in this case) through the process of migration.Based on semi-structured interviews with 22 subjects, and a thematic analysis of their responses, the study revealed four important findings a) studying migration should not be reduced to studying migrants only, as the broader society is vividly present in all of one’s personal decisions regarding migration; b) in addition to those who actually migrate, there is a larger segment of population who desire to migrate but they never do; understanding this group is essential for a deeper understanding of the phenomenon we have called ‘the migration tendency’; c) in many cases, migration involves a utopian image of the destination country; d) such images are often arrived at in a very early age, and not necessarily in the adult years and based on a detailed cost-benefit analysis of migration; understanding this feature is crucial for formulating proper responses and policies with regards to migration.