Dr. Gertrude Saxinger, University of Vienna and Austrian Polar Research Institute, AT, Gertrude.Saxinger@univie.ac.at
Dr. Doris A. Carson, Umea University, SE, doris.carson@umu.se
Dr. Sharon Harwood, James Cook University, Cairns, AUS, sharon.harwood1@jcu.edu.au
Prof. Hanna K. Snellman, University of Helsinki, FI, hanna.snellman@helsinki.fi

Over the last centuries the Arctic regions have been characterised by incoming workforce for exploration and exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources. In the last decades the Arctic attracts people from elsewhere also for working in the service sectors, such as tourism. These fields often do not necessarily attract people as migrants who settle there on a more permanent basis, rather their stay is transient; be it on longer or shorter basis. Furthermore, also people within the Arctic travel to their work destinations on a rotational shift-work basis, such as fly-in/fly-out operations, on a seasonal basis or, with unknown time-span in the various industries; be it mining, petroleum, timber, construction, fisheries or tourism and other service sectors.

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