Patterns of Transnational Urban Drift to Latvia

Zaiga Krišjāne; Māris Bērziņš; Elīna Apsīte-Beriņa; Jānis Krūmiņš; Toms Skadiņš

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77466-0_9

Patterns of Transnational Urban Drift to Latvia

Zaiga Krišjāne
, Māris Bērziņš
, Elīna Apsīte-Beriņa
, Jānis Krūmiņš
, Toms Skadiņš

University of Latvia

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Abstract

This chapter extends the previous knowledge on the effects of migrants’ transnational lifestyle by studying residential patterns and life preferences of Latvian return migrants and arriving foreigners. We aim to explore the geographies and narratives from interviews with migrants who had shifted to more dynamic and prosperous urban/suburban locations. The contribution sends forward the interplay between immigration and return migration experiences by questioning: (1) What are the migratory flows’ geographical contexts? (2) How do they overlap and illuminate the process of ‘urban drift’? (3) How do the ‘urban drifters’ value their current life preferences and migratory experiences? Using secondary data sources, primary quantitative and qualitative data, the authors illustrate the main migratory flows and groups of transnational migrants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Geographies of Tourism and Global Change
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	145-161
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-77465-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77466-0_9
Publication status	Published - 2021

Publication series

Name	Geographies of Tourism and Global Change
ISSN (Print)	2366-5610
ISSN (Electronic)	2366-5629

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

Circularity
Immigration
Latvia
Transnational migration
Urban drift

OECD Field of Science

5.7 Social and Economic Geography

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Patterns of Transnational Urban Drift to Latvia

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