Homesickness is an important spiritual expression of migrant workers in the transformation of time and space

but researches on their returning to hometown for entrepreneurship rarely include such a factor. A grounded theory research shows that the homesickness of migrant workers involves emotional anxiety and identity anxiety

which further lead to their reflection on "urban-rural differences" and "youthful experience". The two kinds of anxiety overlap to form the driving mechanism for migrant workers to return home and start a business. Migrant workers shaped by such mechanism who return to hometown are youth-oriented

mission-oriented or connection-oriented

which reflect their pursuit of values

desire to repay hometown and settle down in both urban and rural areas. Homesickness-driven returning to hometown for entrepreneurship is a new tendency for the shift of migrant workers’ livelihood and there is the risk of them idling away their life if such homesickness is not properly dissolved. Therefore

individuals and local and central governments should pay attention to the practical value and methodological significance of such homesickness

and promote the high-quality development of migrant workers who return to hometown for entrepreneurship.