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Life Strategy Research Framework

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This chapter discusses the key ideas and concepts that build up the original life strategy research framework and provides new conceptual and methodological tools for social scientists who want to study the life strategies of mobile social actors. By bringing together the analysis of regime transition and the analysis of life strategies within the Eastern European and Western sociology, this chapter syntheses the original life strategy research framework and discuss the building blocks of the framework, that is, agency/structure, transition, migration and social identities. The chapter discussed the unique mix-method research design and methodology that is shaped by the conceptual framework and introduces the analytical logic that guides the analytical chapters that follow.

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    The term literally translates as “restructuring” and refers to the change in USSR’s political and economic system triggered by its last (1985–1991) leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Oleinikova, O. (2020). Life Strategy Research Framework. In: Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39839-2_2

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