Migrants as Agents of Change

Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union

AvIzabela Grabowska,Michał P. Garapich

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-16
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Antal sidor:249
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137590657

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"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)

Innehållsförteckning

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.