To be Mobile to Stabilize and to Return to Enjoy: Safety, Cultural Familiarity and Inner-self in the Context of Mobility vs. Migration

Return is discussed mostly in the context of migration, not regard to mobility. When it comes return EU citizens, seen as much a but retro-mobility. However, there are also great differences between member-states regarding patterns. These patterns influenced by socialization, work cultures, and concepts such safety, family self. differences, which do seem very crucial at first, can result return, rather than permanent migration. In order understand dynamics I focus hereby two women’s lives where conducted interviews with each: one during mobility another before their home countries, namely Iceland Spain. argue, this paper, that motivations for complex cannot be easily categorized specific factor. Rather, they combination multiple factors vary diverse periods examined macro, meso micro themes emerged from cultural familiarity inner-self. The inner-self makes last decision whilst ideas on safety facilitating return. Hence, every biographical story has consider biographies each migrant and/or mobile person examine reasons its full complexity.