Back to the City: Internal Return Migration to Metropolitan Regions in Sweden

Amcoff, Jan; Niedomysl, Thomas

doi:10.1068/a45492

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“…Individuals who lived in more urbanised municipalities in 1995 are more likely to return: the probability of returning home is 13.7% higher for men from highly urbanised municipalities compared with men from nonurbanised municipalities. This result confirms the earlier results of Amcoff and Niedomysl (). To learn more about the background of return migrants to highly urbanised areas, an additional analysis was conducted.…”

Section: Return Migrationsupporting

confidence: 93%

Spatial trajectories in early life: Moving on or returning home?

Zorlu

Kooiman

2019

Population Space and Place

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This paper investigates the residential mobility patterns of young adults upon leaving home, with an emphasis on the role of life course events in determining return migration to the home region. Using longitudinal register data for the Netherlands, the analysis shows that parental ties serve as an anchor attracting returnees: young adults appear to return to their home region when their parents still live in the region. This is more pronounced for women. It seems that women are more likely to return to provide assistance to parents, and men's return is more motivated by receiving assistance. The return inclination of men is, for instance, primarily induced by family life events, such as having children and becoming a lone father. The propensity for return is lower for graduates, young adults with a higher income, and individuals originating from less urbanised areas.

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Section: Return Migrationsupporting

confidence: 93%

Spatial trajectories in early life: Moving on or returning home?

Zorlu

Kooiman

2019

Population Space and Place

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“…Gender differences are reportedly marginal, but findings nonetheless indicate that men are more prone to return migration than are women (e.g. Newbold & Bell, ; Amcoff & Niedomysl, ).…”

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Is the Tied Returnee Male or Female? The Trailing Spouse Thesis Reconsidered

Amcoff

Niedomysl

2015

Population Space and Place

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A common finding of 30-40 years of family migration studies worldwide is that such migration primarily benefits the careers of men in couples but generally damages the women's careers. Findings have recently become more nuanced as the research focus has broadened, hinting that families returning to one spouse's region of previous residence might deviate from this general observation of men as gainers. The present research demonstrates that when families migrate to regions where one spouse has previously lived, it is the female spouse who tends to return, the male spouse (and children, if any) accompanying her as a trailing spouse. This result also holds when restricting attention to those few families in which the female spouse experiences the greatest income increase by moving. There is no evidence of a tradeoff between returning to a region of previous residence and career development. The findings suggest that women compensate for the slighter economic gains with greater non-monetary gains.

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“…While counterurbanisation has traditionally been portrayed as lifestyle-induced migration, return migration is often understood based on a success-failure dichotomy, whereby the decision to return can be a result of failure (Haartsen & Thissen, 2014;Hunt, 2004). Amcoff and Niedomysl (2013) found that unemployment is a trigger for return migration in Sweden, both in general as well as specifically to metropolitan areas. In these terms, failure is often understood as economic failure, for instance unemployment.…”

Section: Return Migrationmentioning

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Leaving the City: Counterurbanisation and Internal Return Migration in Sweden

Sandow

Lundholm

2023

Eur J Population

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This paper examines counterurban migration among young families with children in Sweden and the extent to which these moves reflect return migration, recognising the role of family members and family roots at the destination from a life course perspective. Drawing on register data for all young families with children leaving the Swedish metropolitan areas during the years 2003–2013, we analyse the pattern of counterurban moves and explore how the families’ socioeconomic characteristics, childhood origins, and links to family networks are associated with becoming a counterurban mover and choice of destination. The results show that four out of ten counterurban movers are former urban movers who choose to return to their home region. Among them, almost all have family at the destination, indicating that family ties are important for counterurban migration. In general, urban residents with a background outside metropolitan areas are much more likely to become counterurban movers. Families’ previous residential experiences during childhood, particularly in rural areas, are found to be associated with the residential environment they choose to resettle in when leaving the big city. Counterurban movers making a return move are similar to other counterurban movers in relation to employment status, but tend to be better off economically and move longer distances than other counterurban movers.

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Back to the City: Internal Return Migration to Metropolitan Regions in Sweden

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

Spatial trajectories in early life: Moving on or returning home?

Spatial trajectories in early life: Moving on or returning home?

Is the Tied Returnee Male or Female? The Trailing Spouse Thesis Reconsidered

Leaving the City: Counterurbanisation and Internal Return Migration in Sweden

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