@article {369,
	title = {The Complexity of Return: Socio-Cultural Remittances of Highly Skilled Belarusians},
	journal = {Central and Eastern European Migration Review},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {119-134},
	chapter = {119},
	abstract = {<p>This article investigates the post-return experiences of highly skilled Belarusian professionals. I concentrate on the socio-cultural aspects of highly skilled migration and view returnees as carriers of new experiences, ideas, and practices by studying the ways in which they apply various socio-cultural remittances to the different spheres of their lives. In particular, I argue that the formation and transmission of socio-cultural remittances are strongly heterogeneous and selective processes, which manifest themselves to varying degrees not only in different people, but also in different aspects of people\&rsquo;s lives. The analysis of several socio-cultural remittances in private and public spheres shows that in some cases the socio-cultural remittances display strong gender differences. Moreover, the highly skilled returnees appear to be proactive remitters: some of them re-interpret and transform the socio-cultural remittances before transmitting them. The research draws on the analysis of 43 in-depth interviews with highly skilled professionals who returned to Belarus after long periods of time spent abroad.</p>},
	keywords = {highly skilled migration; return migration; social remittances; Belarus},
	issn = {2300-1682},
	doi = {10.17467/ceemr.2016.07},
	url = {http://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/Bobova_Socio-Cultural_Remittances_of_Highly_Skilled_Belarusians.pdf},
	author = {Bobova, Nadya}
}
