The subject of this book are migration journeys of highly skilled workers. By focusing on
migration as a journey the research considers all stages of migration (remigration in
particular) and complements the approach to the phenomenon with a life-long perspective. In
this sense the prism of migration journeys allows to look at migration motives in a novel
manner. The book discloses motive as a complex phenomenon which may also change over time. The
chosen perspective helps to explain why under similar conditions some workers migrate while
others do not and in the same manner why some remigrate while others stay put in destination
countries. The empirical basis for the case of highly skilled (re)migration from Russia to
Germany has been constituted by unstructured interviews with narrative parts which were
conducted by the author in various cities of Germany and Russia.
