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Migration and (Im)Mobility: Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada
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Abstract In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, the author develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data gathered amon... view more
In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, the author develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data gathered among young adults of Polish heritage in Germany and Canada, she conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility which illustrate the diversity of immigrants' geographical movements after their initial migration. She thus reveals the different social configurations promoting or hindering the development, maintenance or shifting of each pattern in migrants' biographical trajectories.... view less
Keywords
migration; mobility; Pole; emigration; Canada; Federal Republic of Germany; globalization; integration; assimilation; multicultural society; identity; biography; life style; cosmopolitanism; social inequality
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
(Im)Mobility; Interculturalism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
322 p.
Series
Kultur und soziale Praxis
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839442517
ISBN
978-3-8394-4251-7
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0