Allow me to refer you to the following new publication:

Return Migration Decisions: A Study on Highly Skilled Chinese in Japan
by Ruth Achenbach
Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658160265

Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both
the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled
workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a question yet insufficiently explained by
migration research: why do migrants deviate from their migration intentions and return sooner or
later than planned, or not at all? Her study integrates factors from the spheres of career, family
and lifestyle, and redefines stages in long-term decision-making processes, thereby contributing to
decision and migration theory. She analyzes migrants’ shifting priorities over the course of
migration, including a perspective on life course and on the impact of the triple catastrophe of
March 11, 2011.
Ruth Achenbach is Academic Coordinator at the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO)
at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on migration in East Asia with a focus on Japan.

Apologies for cross-posting.

Ruth Achenbach

Academic Coordinator
Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO)
AFRASO - Africa's Asian Options
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Goethe University Frankfurt | Senckenberganlage 31 | D-60325 Frankfurt am Main
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Email achenbach@em.uni-frankfurt.de | Web www.izo.uni-frankfurt.de; www.afraso.org