connect to places and cultures. The objective of the theoretical discussion is to develop approaches that can explain why some migrants choose to stay in host society while others move on. The theoretical argument in the paper deals with mobility and connectivity as two main concepts. At the heart of the so-called mobility paradigm lays the assumptions that places or cultures are shaped not only by what happens in a place, but also by the mobility to and from a place and between places. Places and cultures are not fixed and separated from the ‘outside’ world, but are dynamic and mobile ‘inside’ the world. The paper argues that the mobility approach implies that migrants are not only shaped by the place they are moving to and have to adjust to some kind of fixed culture, but they themselves also play a part in changing the culture of the place. In addition, the mobility paradigm suggests that movement itself also has impact on the transformation of place and culture. In order to understand the changing

culture of place and how transnational migrants relate to places, the paper argues that it is important to investigate and understand the actual connections which a migrant makes, not only to people and culture in place, but also regarding the (transnational) connections that he/she makes to other places and the impact these relations have on his/her feeling of inclusion or exclusion regarding the local community. Connectivity as a coping strategy then becomes part of the main theoretical argument in the paper in order to understanding the mobility of transnational skilled migrants.