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Migrants as Agents of Change: Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union
Izabela Grabowska
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Description for Migrants as Agents of Change: Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union
Hardback. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 249 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFFM; JFFN; JHB; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Condition
New
Weight
494 g
Number of Pages
249
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137590657
SKU
V9781137590657
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Ref
99-15
About Izabela Grabowska
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Migrants as Agents of Change: Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union
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) ... Read more