Mobility, Transnational and Integration Continuums as Components of the Migrant Experience: An Intersectional Polish-Ukrainian Case Study

• Autorzy: Anne White
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Qualitative migration researchers today often use one or more of three concepts - mobility, transnationalism and integration - to make sense of the complexities of contemporary migrants' lives. Collectively, researchers identify these as the three fundamental characteristics of migranthood. Being a migrant is about, for example, planning return visits, maintaining (or not maintaining) relations with people in the sending country or being preoccupied with learning to speak the receiving-society majority language. Qualitative interviewing suggests that each migrant is uniquely situated along various mobility, transnational and integration continuums. Migrants have many social identities as well as migranthood and the existence of these other, intersecting, social identities (such as social class, lifestage and gender) helps to determine their location on the continuums: for example, how often they are mobile and how much they can be mobile. The article draws on interviews in Poland with Ukrainians and Polish return migrants to show how (former) migrants conceptualise shared Ukrainian-Polish migranthood along these three continuums.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Migration; Social integration

PL

Migracja; Integracja społeczna

• Czasopismo: Central and Eastern European Migration Review
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 11
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 17--32

Twórcy

autor

Anne White

• UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), UK.

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DOI

10.54667/ceemr.2022.13