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Migrants as agents of change = social remittances in an enlarged European Union /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Migrants as agents of change/ by Izabela Grabowska ... [et al.].
Reminder of title:	social remittances in an enlarged European Union /
other author:	Grabowska, Izabela.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2017.,
Description:	xv, 249 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Emigrant remittances - European Union countries. -
Subject:	European Union countries - Congresses. - Appropriations and expenditures -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59066-4
ISBN:	9781137590664

Migrants as agents of change = social remittances in an enlarged European Union /
Migrants as agents of changesocial remittances in an enlarged European Union /[electronic resource] :by Izabela Grabowska ... [et al.]. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017. - xv, 249 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Migration, diasporas and citizenship. - Migration, diasporas and citizenship..

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.

'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 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.

ISBN: 9781137590664

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-59066-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1249278
Emigrant remittances
--European Union countries.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

557911
European Union countries
--Appropriations and expenditures--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: JV6217 / .G73 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 304.84

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