Reasons to stay // Reasons to return

• Main Author: Nolsøe Djurhuus, Sanna
• Other Authors: Himaz, Rozana
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Brookes University 2019
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24384/cq2g-tp45; https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/df77dd92-544d-4d61-af1c-cc923f84bbf4/1/poster.pdf

The Faroe Islands are a small-island nation in the North Atlantic faced with issues common to peripheral regions worldwide, such as structural dependency on its historical sovereign (Denmark), expensive livelihood, negative net-migration, and a subsequent ‘brain-drain’ of highly educated youth [1]. However, in 2013 net-migration turned positive for the first time in 10 years, making the Faroese case a conundrum in the North Atlantic region. Concurrent with this phenomenon was the Faroese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s introduction of the 2013 Migration Policy Programme [2]. This research focused on understanding young Faroese people's migration behaviour, answering whether five specific policies targeting tertiary degree students affected the positive changes in migration, and highlighting the most impactful policies.