The construction of Lithuanian migrants’ professional career paths: moving up and down career track

Abstract

In this paper we analyse the professional career paths in migration, pointing out the construction of professional career as the modern pattern of social behaviour. The chosen theory of career construction provides the contextual approach to the analysis of career paths. The paper analyses transformations of the professional career path of 89 Lithuanian migrants in European countries. The analysis of the career paths of Lithuanian
migrants is performed based on the distribution, which indicates the diverse directions of career moves: (1) negative and positive vertical, (2) negative and positive horizontal, and (3) multidirectional movements of career paths (positive vertical-negative horizontal, positive vertical-positive horizontal, negative vertical-positive horizontal, negative vertical-negative horizontal).