Migrants as Agents of Change (eBook)

Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union
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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XV, 249 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-59066-4 (ISBN)

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Migrants as Agents of Change - Izabela Grabowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ewa Jaźwińska, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
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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.



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 a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Sociology and the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.



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.

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 a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Sociology and the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.11.2016
Reihe/Serie Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
Zusatzinfo XV, 249 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte acceptance • Communities • European Union Politics • Multisited qualitative longitudinal research • Poland • resistance • transnational • United Kingdom
ISBN-10 1-137-59066-1 / 1137590661
ISBN-13 978-1-137-59066-4 / 9781137590664
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