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<p>Existing studies often focus on psycho-emotional challenges and the identity reconstruction process during migration, but they rarely address the readaptation stress and identity clashes that arise in the post-return phase. This study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore how identities are re-shaped, negotiated, and maintained in post post-migration period. 23 in-depth interviews with Georgian return migrants (12 women and 11 men) are analyzed to explore the transfer and negotiation of values, gender roles, and identities as a basic element of the proculturation process. Drawing on the Cultural Identity Model (CIM) and the concept of proculturation, this study identifies three scenarios that capture the adaptation process of return migrants. The first scenario, sustaining changes after remigration, corresponds to the additive identity type in CIM, where returnees acted as change agents, integrating values from the host country into their lives and actively promoting them. The second scenario, resistant versus receptive, reflects the subtractive identity where returnees preserved the internal changes they had experienced abroad but struggled to reconnect with their home society. The third scenario, fusion of values, represents a more flexible form of additive identity. Here returnees selectively and situationally embracing the elements of host culture and negotiating a balance between traditional and modern values. The study findings have important implications for public policy makers and support services for return migrants.</p>

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Re-Adaptation with Home Culture: A Qualitative Study of Return Migrants in Georgia

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年11月7日

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  • Maia Mestvirishvili,
  • Natia Mestvirishvili,
  • Mariam Kvitsiani,
  • Tamar Kamushadze

摘要

Existing studies often focus on psycho-emotional challenges and the identity reconstruction process during migration, but they rarely address the readaptation stress and identity clashes that arise in the post-return phase. This study uses interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore how identities are re-shaped, negotiated, and maintained in post post-migration period. 23 in-depth interviews with Georgian return migrants (12 women and 11 men) are analyzed to explore the transfer and negotiation of values, gender roles, and identities as a basic element of the proculturation process. Drawing on the Cultural Identity Model (CIM) and the concept of proculturation, this study identifies three scenarios that capture the adaptation process of return migrants. The first scenario, sustaining changes after remigration, corresponds to the additive identity type in CIM, where returnees acted as change agents, integrating values from the host country into their lives and actively promoting them. The second scenario, resistant versus receptive, reflects the subtractive identity where returnees preserved the internal changes they had experienced abroad but struggled to reconnect with their home society. The third scenario, fusion of values, represents a more flexible form of additive identity. Here returnees selectively and situationally embracing the elements of host culture and negotiating a balance between traditional and modern values. The study findings have important implications for public policy makers and support services for return migrants.