Migrants as Agents of Change : Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union

'An important contribution to debates about migration and social change. Based on interdisciplinary, longitudinal research on migration between three Polish communities and the United Kingdom in post-accession Europe, Grabowska and her colleagues carefully unpack how social remittance transfers...

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Main Authors Grabowska, Izabela (Author), Garapich, Michał P. (Author), Jaźwińska, Ewa (Author), Radziwinowiczówna, Agnieszka (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesMigration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Subjects
Social sciences.
European Union.
Emigration and immigration.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781137590664
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-59066-4
Physical DescriptionXV, 249 p. 7 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Social remittances and "hand-made" change by migrants
  • Chapter 1. Process of transfer of social remittances in the European Union
  • Chapter 2. Transnational multisited qualitative longitudinal research in investigating social remittances and change
  • Chapter 3. Researched communities in Poland and in the UK: Transnational spaces of diffusion and social remittances
  • Chapter 4. Observing, acquiring, resisting: Migrants' agency in the web of social remittances
  • Chapter 5. Collective outcomes of social remittances- reactions of local communities: Acceptance and Resistance
  • Chapter 6. Migrants as agents of micro social changes
  • Conclusions.

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