This panel is meant to focus on migration decision making, stretching beyond traditional narratives, i.e. rationality in migration decisions or push and pull factors supplemented with the experience and psychological (pre)dispositions, of individuals and household. In spite of long lasting discussion, the migration decision making process is still ambiguous and outcomes hard to predict in terms of flows and return migration. It is also unclear if the decision making is limited to voluntary migration or there is a lieu for it in the case of forced migration. Or choice and coercion mingle together? We believe these aspects beg for attention taken high numbers of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country after the Russian aggression.

We would like our panel to focus on various stages of migration decision making process – from the migration intention through decision to migrate and subsequent decision, i.e. when, where and how. Therefore we will ask the following questions:

• How the migration decision are made and by whom?
• Are migrants subjects or objects in this process?
• When and how the migration intention translate into migration decision and when they are left unfulfilled?
• Is there space for migration decisions in case of forced migration?