Londoners and Outlanders
Polish Labour Migration through the European Lens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10515952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kris Van Heuckelom (0000-0003-1188-916X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-210 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Slavonic and East European Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6795 • E-ISSN: 2222-4327 |
| Publisher | Maney Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.91.2.0210 |
| OpenAlex | W2498421261 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article covers a series of prominent tropes and shifts that characterize the cinematic portrayal of immigrant workers from Poland in contemporary European film, with aspecial focus on the on-screen treatment of Polish jobseekers moving to the United Kingdom in the post-accession period. As a comparative and contextual analysis of recent London-set films such as Ken Loach's It's a Free World (2007) and Dominic Lees's Outlanders (2007) indicates, Polish characters are gradually climbing up the social ladder within Fortress Europe, getting rid of their label of prototypical labour immigrants, whereas the empty space is taken up by immigrants from outside the Schengen zone
Accession · Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Climbing · Economic history · Economics · European union · Fortress (chess · Immigration · International trade · Period (music · Political science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |