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Lithuania’s Quest for Self-Determination
Municipal Responses to National Emigration
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2023
Summary
Self-determination in the European Union rests on the strength and skills of a country’s representatives to manage and leverage relationships with other nations, and for individuals it rests on the ability to use autonomy and freedom wisely. To flourish, an individual must consciously determine their own path. Similarly, we can say a country can flourish. Self-determinism for a country is conditioned on the forces that facilitate or hinder its ability to succeed as a society. The same forces that can help a nation to flourish might also accelerate the decision to emigrate among a nation’s people. This is the paradox, and it is the quest: national and individual self-determination, to allow choice for emigration but to have strength of culture, civics, and institutions to discourage it, or to encourage return migration for those who have left. In this book, we address this paradox and this quest using the case of Lithuania. More specifically, we examine how municipalities can and do respond to ongoing population shrinking due to emigration in Lithuania, the non-economic factors that facilitate decisions to emigrate, and the opportunities for local governments to shrink smartly or reverse shrinkage.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-4252-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-4253-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
144
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Acknowledgments No access
Emigration No access
Methodology No access
Structure No access
Personal Ambition No access
Personal Relationships No access
Quality of Life No access
Quality of Working Life No access
Future Opportunities No access
Quality of Governance No access
Fitness to Enter a New Society No access
Locating Non-Economic Factors within a Push/Pull Framework No access
Municipal and NGO Responses to Emigration-Driven Population Shrinkage No access
Chapter 3: History of Lithuania: Summary from Early Times to Today and Beyond No access
The Experience of the Third-Wave Emigrants No access
The Experience of the Fourth-Wave Emigrants No access
Place and Civic Integration No access
Variable Construction and Analysis No access
Findings: Relationship between Typology of Citizens and Emigration Intent No access
Implications of the Profiles for Policymakers and Community Leaders No access
Civic Participation No access
Satisfaction with Civic Participation Opportunities No access
Findings No access
Implications for Policymakers and Community Leaders No access
Findings from Lithuania: Loyalty and Emigration Intent No access
Governmental Strategies to Address Issues of Emigration and Population Shrinkage No access
Case Example: Akmenė District Municipality No access
Summary of Strategic Plans No access
Declining Population, Including Children and Youth, in the Municipalities No access
Aging of the Municipality’s Population, as Mostly Young People Leaving No access
Increased Number of Families and Children at Social Risk, Especially When Children are Left in the Care of Grandparents or Foster Parents No access
Lack of Specialists with the Necessary Education in the Municipalities No access
Infrastructure/Economic Problems Caused with the Shrinkage of Population No access
Reduction in Crime, Need for Social Services, and Introduction of New Money No access
Broadened Cultural Competencies and Professional Knowledge No access
Training for Returning Emigrants and Their Children Who Do Not Have Good Lithuanian Language Skills No access
Municipal Programs Supporting Young People and Communities No access
Building Infrastructure for Families No access
Summary No access
Findings and Recommendations No access
Municipal Governments as Innovation Hubs No access
