A N A LY S I S DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LEAVING SERBIA Aspirations, intentions and drivers of youth migration Danica Šantić May 2020 Youth outflow from Serbia has increased in recent decade. Together with unfavorable demographic trends, this could lead towards the long term consequences and destabilizing effects. Young people have very high mobility aspirations. Main drivers of emigration are unemployment and low standard of life thus political instability, crime and corruption do not feature as much How to improve the transfer of research results into policy­making and how to enhance the evidence base policies on migration? Proactive migration policy model and properly design measures can shape ongoing and future migration, mitigating incentives to migrate and encouraging return