 Emigration from Latvia: A Brief History and Driving Forces in the 21st CenturyMPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Abstract: In recent years, Latvia has established itself as one of the top two countries with the most intensive emigration among EU/EFTA member states. This chapter starts by describing the demographic context and the scale of emigration post-2000, followed by a brief history of the main population flows (migration, refugees, and deportation) from and to Latvia in the twentieth century. It then offers a more detailed analysis of emigration during the first 15 years of the twenty-first century including a closer look at the four waves of recent emigration: (i) the pre-EU accession wave, 2000–2003; (ii) the post-accession wave, 2004–2008; (iii) the crisis-driven wave, 2009–2010; and (iv) the post-crisis wave, 2011–2016. For each wave, a description of the economic and social context is given within a conceptual framework using insights from human capital theory, the new economic theory of migration, network theory, and migration systems theory. Institutional factors are also emphasized. Keywords: emigration; selectivity of migrants; human capital; ethnic minorities; Latvia (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Rita Kaša and Inta Mieriņa (eds.), The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Belonging and Return Migration. Berlin - Heidelberg: Springer Open (2019): pp. 35-68 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:118484 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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