Officials in Moscow and in Ingushetia said their motive was purely humanitarian: to return people, voluntarily, to their homes, or at least to buildings with roofs, as a first step to restoring normal life for Chechens.
So, a key motive in the decision to return concerns children born and raised in Germany.
A study by Al-Ali et al. revealed that economic and social problems in the country of origin as well as a desire to first complete their children's education represent important motives in deciding not to return [ 15].
When examining Obama's motives in Libya, one has to return to his decision to initiate military action in March, 2011, without acceding to the War Powers Act, so that he wouldn't have to get Congressional approval if it went on for sixty or ninety days (as it did).
Dustmann (2001) suggests several motives that determine migrants' choice to return and finds that preference for the home country is an important factor in the choice process.
Of the existing empirical studies, the majority concentrate on the motives of refugees and migrants to return to their country of origin [ 21, 39, 49, 51].
He has the motive to make a deal happen (to return triumphantly to Yahoo), and some of the tools (large amounts of money at his disposal).
Early sociological and anthropological research in this field focused on the motives and expectations of voluntary returnees upon deciding to return to their country of origin.
Shortly after WFP had suspended operations in the region in 2010, it was accused of political motives and banned, making it impossible for it to return as famine approached.
In order to allow for a better understanding of our findings we have divided the following section into three parts: a) motives for and against voluntary return, b) voluntariness of the decision to return and c) willingness to return under the current circumstances.
In a first stage, the motives of refugees from the former Yugoslavia who did not want to return to their home country and who preferred to remain in the receiving country (in this case Germany) were subject to investigation.
