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Survey study — September 2026
From Departure to Non-Return
Factors Influencing Talented Youth Migration
- like their hometown
- 72%like their hometown
- rate its opportunities poor
- 64%rate its opportunities poor
- quality of life first
- 37.3%quality of life first
- would return — it depends
- 33.3%would return — it depends
Hafiza Rabia Sadaqat & Aradhya Sharma — 60 pages
Most young people like where they're from. Far fewer think it has anything to offer them. A survey of 51 respondents aged 15–25 on why young people leave their hometowns — and what would actually bring them back.
Youth migrationBrain drainReturn migrationHometown development
- Design
- Descriptive, survey-based
- Sample
- N = 51 (n = 50 on some items)
- Eligibility
- Aged 15–25 — no screen for talent
- Sampling
- Non-probability convenience
In the field
The second paper is being argued over right now.
Shwetha and Rabiya's team is somewhere between the survey and the fourth round of fact-checking. When it's ready to cite, it goes here. Not before.