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Author Wieczorek, Anna Xymena, 1985-

Title Migration and (Im)Mobility : Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada
Published Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Series Kultur und soziale Praxis
Kultur und soziale Praxis.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: How We Think of Migration and Mobility; Part I: A Proposition: Examining Migrants' Mobilities through Biographies; 1 From "Classical" and "New" Approaches in Migration Studies to the "Mobilities Perspective" on Migration; 2 (Im)Mobile Individuals: Studying Their Biographies; Part II: Patterns of (Im)Mobility: Reading Lives and Interpreting Biographical Narratives; Excursus on the Country of Origin: Poland; 3 Immobility: The Immobile Pattern of Mobility
4 Transmobility: The Transnational Pattern of Mobility5 Cosmobility: The Cosmopolitan Pattern of Mobility; Part III: Making Sense of Movements: Towards a "Mobilities Perspective" in Migration Studies; 6 Revisiting Migration through the Patterns of (Im)Mobility; Conclusion: How to Rethink Migration and Mobility; References
Summary In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek 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, Wieczorek 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
Analysis (Im)Mobility
Canada
Germany
Globalization
Interculturalism
Lifestyle
Polish Migrants
Social Inequality
Sociology
Notes Print version record
Subject Polish people -- Gerrmany -- Social conditions
Foreign workers, Polish -- Germany -- Social conditions
Foreign workers, Polish -- Canada -- Social conditions
Polish people -- Canada -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Polish people -- Social conditions
Canada
Germany
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3839442516
9783839442517