%0 Journal Article
%T The Concept of the Self in Explaining Post-1989 Bulgarian Physicians¡¯ Emigration
%A Stefaniya BEKYAROVA
%J Journal of Identity and Migration Studies
%D 2011
%I Research Centre on Identity and Migration Studies-RCIMI, University of Oradea
%X This article presents the results of the methodological and empirical efforts for exploring and understanding the emigration of Bulgarian physicians, after 1989. The study applies a biographical approach through a conceptual framework, which utilizes concepts from social theory and social anthropology. Using in-depth interviewing as the main research tool, complemented by a secondary data gathering technique, the study offers an explanation of the migration decision as generated in a conflict of the migrant¡¯s understanding of his/her self and of the desired relation of the self to society on one hand and the migrant¡¯s understanding of his/her society on the other. The concept of the self (self-identity, self-consciousness) proves effective in explaining the migration decision.
%K migration
%K Bulgarian physicians
%K biographical approach
%K self
%U http://e-migration.ro/jims/Vol5_No2_2011/Articles/JIMS_Vol5_No2_2011_pp_20_42_BEKYAROVA.pdf