Sensemaking of social remitting after return: between self-realisation at work and work culture
ENThis chapter focuses on the private, governmental, and non-governmental sectors, based on semi-structured interviews with remigrants and a number of matched interviews with colleagues from Lithuania. Several examples from Polish and Croatian interviews are also included that discuss the attitudes towards work culture in their countries, with the receptivity to social remittances also explored. This chapter considers how social remitting by returnees could be interpreted as a sensemaking process through work-related self-realisation, work-life balance, and the contextual conditions in the home country. In the sensemaking process (Weick 1995), the reality is perceived as a constant achievement arising from attempts to improve the opportunities that creates daily life order and makes retrospective sense of the situations in which the returnees find themselves. [Extract, p. 204].
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