Migrants as agents of change : social remittances in an enlarged European Union / Izabela Grabowska, Michal P. Garapich, Ewa Jaźwińska, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grabowska, Izabela, author.

Garapich, Michał P., author.

Jażwińska-Motylska, Ewa, author.

Radziwinowiczówna, Agnieszka, author.

Series:

Migration, diasporas and citizenship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigrant remittances.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

European Union countries--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

European Union countries.

Emigrant remittances--European Union countries.

Physical Description:

xv, 251 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; List of Charts; List of Maps; 1: Introduction: Social Remittances and "Hand-Made" Change by Migrants; 1.1 Socio-demographic Portrait of Migrating Poles Since EU Enlargement in May 2004; 1.2 Social Remittances, "Hand-Made" Social Change and Research Questions; 1.3 Context-Dependency of Migration and Change: Three Communities Under Study; 2: Process of Transfer of Social Remittances in the European Union; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Social Remittances in Migration Studies; 2.3 Theoretical Concepts and Process of Social Remitting.

2.4 Social Indicators of Social Remittances2.5 Acquisition of Social Remittances; 2.6 Transfer of Social Remittances; 2.7 Outcomes of Transfer of Social Remittances; 2.8 Resistance to Social Remittances; 2.9 Conceptual Model and Summary; 3: Transnational Multisited Qualitative Longitudinal Research in Investigating Social Remittances and Change; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Method: Transnational Multisited Qualitative Longitudinal Research; 3.3 Sampling Case Sites and People; Going Local: Sampling Case Sites and Revisiting Them; Sampling People and Maintaining Them in the Panel Research.

Local Observers Migrants and Returnees; 3.4 Management of Data Collection and Simultaneity of Field Researchers; 4: Researched Communities in Poland and in the UK: Transnational Spaces of Diffusion and Social Remittances; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Sokolka; Outline of the History of the Town; Pre-accession Migration in the Community; EU Accession; Migration to the UK; 4.3 Pszczyna; Outline of the History of the Town; Pre-accession Migration in the Community; EU Accession; Migration to the UK; 4.4 Trzebnica; Outline of the History of the Town; Pre-accession Migration in the Community.

EU Accession Migration to the UK; 4.5 Summary; 5: Observing, Acquiring, Resisting: Migrants' Agency in the Web of Social Remittances; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Facing Novelty: Migrants in New Context; 5.3 Norms of Civility and Living with Strangers; 5.4 Acquiring Tolerance?; Ways of Being, Ways of Resisting; 5.5 Place-making and Remittances; 5.6 Summary; 6: Collective Outcomes of Social Remittances: Reactions of Local Communities (Acceptance and Resistance); 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Transfer of Migratory Novelties to Communities; 6.3 Ways of Transfer.

6.4 Changes in Local Communities and the Collective Effect of Social Remittances6.5 Outcomes of Transfer; Individual Outcomes; Collective Outcomes of Migration Transfer; 6.6 No Changes; 6.7 Factors that Inhibit Cultural Diffusion: Social Resistance in the Studied Communities; 6.8 Concluding Remarks; 7: Migrants as Agents of Micro Social Changes; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Individuals, Social Remittances, Agency and Change; 7.3 How Agents of Change Are Filtered Out from the Wider Samples; 7.4 Testimonials of Agents of Change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Grabowska, Izabela. Migrants as agents of change.

ISBN:

9781137590657

1137590653

OCLC:

967722363