Return or Settle? Migration Aspirations and Their Impact on Ukrainian Students

Traditional approaches in migration studies are push and pull factors, neoclassical theory of historical-structural approaches. However, as critical assert, these not human-centered because self-identification or self-realization migrants is adopted, but emphasized impersonal structural factors determinants which may passive objects. This article, based on qualitative research the Czech Republic Ukraine, aimed at young Ukrainian participants who their 15-16-years-old migrated students High school Uni?ov, Republic, while parents stayed Ukraine. Among voluntary migrants, also those were “forced” by to migrate. Their aspirations ambiguous. First group wanted settle country immigration migrate had ambitions go back article shows that aspirations, instead objective more decisive for creating boundaries between participants.  &nbsp