Migrants as Agents of Change

Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-59065-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4501 g

Reihe: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grabowska, Izabela

Radziwinowiczówna, Agnieszka

Garapich, Michal P.

Ja¿wi¿ska, Ewa

Jazwinska, Ewa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.