Sociološki pristup u istraživanju procesa povratnih migracija
Sociological Approach in the Research of Processes of Returning Migrations

Summary/Abstract: In this work the author first discusses the possibility of an appropriate sociological theoretical concept for defining the term returning migration, starting from the model of the collective-identification field of migrants as a social group, conceptualised by S. Me`nari}. The theory of B. I. Reynes which integrates four approaches to the research of returning migrations is also presented: the theory of unfulfilled goals, the theory of circular migrations, the theory of planned earnings and the theory of social network, which proved appropriate in operationalising the indicators for researching returning migrations. The goal was to determine whether returned migrants were a social group in the sociological sense and which characteristics placed them in the same collective-identification field. The initial hypothesis was that returning migrations include the entirety of the migrant's experience: the experience of migration, the experience of adjustment to the new environment by means of the processes of integration (acculturation and assimilation) and the experience of returning and adjusting to the "old" environment, i.e. the experience of reintegration into the country of origin, which makes the returned migrants or returnees a social group with similar characteristics and experiences.

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