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Migrants as Agents of Change: Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

Autor Izabela Grabowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ewa Jaźwińska, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
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This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement social remittances in the same way. Whilst the circulation of ideas, norms and practices is an important aspect of modernity, acts of resistance, imitation and innovation mean that whilst some migrants become ordinary agents of social change in their local microcosms, others may contest that change. By putting this individual agency centre stage, the authors trace how social remittances are evolving, and the ambiguous impact that they have on society. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137590657
ISBN-10: 1137590653
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: XV, 249 p. 7 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

Recenzii

“Migrants As Agents of Change makes a significant contribution to the existing theoretical, methodological and empirical literature on social remittances. … this is a very imaginative and scholarly book, which makes a substantial theoretical and empirical contribution to existing migration scholarship, and deserves to be widely read.” (Anne White, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, Vol. 5 (2), 2016)

Notă biografică

Izabela Grabowska is Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland, and International Research Coordinator at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland. 

Michal P. Garapich is Senior lecturer at University of Roehampton, UK.

Ewa Jazwinska is Methodological Coordinator at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Agnieszka Radziwinowicz is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Sociology and the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.



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‘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 actually work. In a world in which sending governments look increasingly to emigrants’ economic and social contributions, this book is an invaluable guide to how and when innovation, or resistance to it, occur.’ – Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and Harvard University, USA

This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement social remittances in the same way. Whilst the circulation of ideas, norms and practices is an important aspect of modernity, acts of resistance, imitation and innovation mean that whilst some migrants become ordinary agents of social change in their local microcosms, others may contest that change. By putting this individual agency centre stage, the authors trace how social remittances are evolving, and the ambiguous impact that they have on society. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology.

Caracteristici

Sheds new light on the role of social remittances in migration Shares cutting-edge material from a major research project Puts individual agency centre stage