Screen LibraryMigrants 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 actua...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59066-4 |
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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 inn |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XV, 249 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781137590664 |
| Index Number: | GN370 |
| CLC: | D523.8 |
| 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 -- C |