"I am ready!"

Autor(en)

Gertrude Saxinger, Elisabeth Öfner, Elvira Shakirova, Maria Ivanova, Maksim Yakovlev, Eduard Gareev

Abstrakt

This article provides insights into the motivation of future highly skilled workers to become long-distance commuters (LDC) (i.e. fly-in/fly-out [FIFO]/drive-in/drive-out [DIDO]) to remote Arctic and Subarctic petroleum extraction sites. The study draws on a sample of students from long-distance commuter families,
who study at the Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (UGNTU) in the Republic of Bashkortostan: a primary LDC sending region in Russia. The study is based on ethnographic qualitative and quantitative research. It shows that LDC shift work is seen as both a socio-economic necessity and a prospering career by half of the respondents. The readiness for long-distance commuting was nearly equal among male and female students. Furthermore, it is an attractive form of gaining a livelihood, especially in rural regions like those in the Republic of Bashkortostan with a competitive labour market and poor socio-economic
development. On the other hand, the repeated separation from family, long travel times, inconvenient life in campsaswell ashealthandsafetyconcernswere citedasdeterrentsfortheotherhalfof therespondents.The article highlights disparities between urban and rural areas as well as between those in full-time LDC and those commuting to earn additional income to supplement their regular agricultural work.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Institut für Slawistik

Externe Organisation(en)

Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI), Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Ufa State Petroleum Technical University

Journal

Siberian Historical Research

Seiten

73-103

Anzahl der Seiten

31

ISSN

2312-461X

Publikationsdatum

2014

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504017 Kulturanthropologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Archaeology, History, Anthropology, Archaeology

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/7086e04f-9a5a-4f57-974a-3ff037996c5d