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This chapter aims to analyse the motivations and experiences of researchers
who leave their country to be trained abroad and those of returnees, in particular
how they integrate into their workplace and community abroad and back at home. It
is based on quantitative information built on administrative and survey data concerning
mobility fiows and reintegration modalities in the Portuguese scientific system,
complemented with a set of interviews addressing motivations, career
trajectories and reintegration experiences. Motivations to go abroad relate mainly to
scientific drives such as to learn new theories and methodologies, to improve the
scientific CV and to establish international networks, but non-scientific reasons
such as cross-cultural experiences are also mentioned. Incentives to return home are
twofold, either to resume a previously tenured position or to try to obtain one,
depending on the generation to which the researcher belongs. However, nonscientific
justifications such as being c\ose to family or other country-related motivations
play a very relevant role.
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Mobility Researchers
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Delicado, A. (2017). 'Home Is Where the Heart Is': The Experiences of Expatriate PhD Students and Returnees. In Ly Thi Tran, Catherine Gomes (Eds.), International Student Connectedness and Identity: Transnational Perspectives (Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education 6), pp. 151-165. Springer Singapore
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Springer Verlag