Return Migration from Saudi Arabia to Egypt: Pull or Push

Modern Egypt is promising as the revolution (Arab Spring) brought hopes of freedom in service, professional, entrepreneurial and skilled sectors of employment. Nostalgia along with other factors like years of life in a closed foreign state tempt Egyptians to reexamine and reassess their decisions to continue in Saudi Arabia or to seek lucrative future that the home country shall offer in the near future. Egyptians living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are undergoing this dilemma in their life.
A study to examine (i) views of Egyptians regarding returning (ii) anticipated pull factors and (iii) push factors at current place of occupation and life is undertaken.
This study examined views of a few Egyptians immigrants – entrepreneurs, professionals, service class, skilled laborers and unskilled laborers in Riyadh city by means of qualitative research techniques.
There is a great consensus that Egypt has potential to offer attractive lives and careers for her nationals. Those pull factors shall, definitely, compensate for the years spent abroad leaving families and pleasures of native living.
Egyptian government shall consider expectations of those who outside Egypt and create opportunities in consonance.