The Impact of Migration on Poland
EU Mobility and Social Change
Anne White, Izabela Grabowska, Pawel Kaczmarczyk, and Krystyna Slany
How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics and economics in contemporary Poland?
The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries, and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since EU accession in 2004. The authors explore an array of social trends and their causes before using in-depth interview data to illustrate how migration contributes to those causes. They address fundamental questions about whether and how Polish society is becoming more equal and more cosmopolitan, arguing that for particular segments of society migration does make a difference, and can be seen as both leveller and eye-opener. While the book focuses mainly on stayers in Poland, and their multiple contacts with Poles in other countries, Chapter 9 analyses ‘Polish society abroad’, a more accurate concept than ‘community’ in countries like the UK, and Chapter 10 considers impacts of immigration to Poland.
The book is written in a lively and accessible style, and will be important reading for anyone interested in the influence of migration on society, as well as students and scholars researching EU mobility, migration theory and methodology, and issues facing contemporary Europe.
Praise for The Impact of Migration on Poland
'Overall... I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, which has made clear contributions to migration theory and literature, and would recommend it to anyone interested in international migration and Central and Eastern Europe.’
International Migration Review
Anne White is Professor of Polish Studies and Social and Political Science at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Professor Paweł Kaczmarczyk is an economist and demographer, and Director of the University of Warsaw Centre of Migration Research. Professor Izabela Grabowska is a sociologist and economist at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (SWPS), Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School and member of the Centre of Migration Research. Krystyna Slany is Professor of Sociology at Jagiellonian University Kraków, and specialises in family and gender research.
'Overall... I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, which has made clear contributions to migration theory and literature, and would recommend it to anyone interested in international migration and Central and Eastern Europe.’
International Migration Review
Format: Open Access HTML
ISBN: 9781787350694
Publication: September 10, 2018
