ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Greek returnees who had previously lived in the former West Germany and then returned back to rural or semi-rural Greece. One phenomenon of globalization is the movement of workers across borders to fill labor shortages, to find higher wages, or to escape unfavorable conditions in their homeland. One of the impacts of migration reported in other studies is a change of sex roles in the families. Moreover, traditional sex role attitudes prescribe the specialization of work and family responsibilities by sex. In research which assesses adjustment a variety of methodological approaches can be considered: longitudinal analysis, quasi-longitudinal or cross-sectional analysis. In both measurements, return migrants and non-migrants tend to agree with the notion of traditional family. All groups indicate a positive attitude towards the traditional family, expressing at the same time a positive attitude towards the extended role of the father and the participation of women in family decision-making.
