Social remittances and intra-EU mobility

Non-financial transfers between U.K. and Poland

Bibliographic Data

ID7843752
AuthorsIzabela Grabowska (0000-0001-7957-4901, University of Warsaw, corresponding author), Michał P Garapich (0000-0003-0248-6780, University of Roehampton)
Year2016
Volume42
Issue13
Pages2146-2162
Publication date2016-10-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2016.1170592
OpenAlexW2341873205
LanguageEN
Citations received23
References cited38

The massive rise in intra-European Union (EU) mobility in recent decades has spawned several important social and cultural phenomena that are still not covered by academic research. Social remittances – the transfer of ideas, practices, codes of behaviours, values and norms between the place of origin and destination are an important aspect of social change and modernity and they are still to be explored and documented. However, not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement them in the same way. Ongoing acts of resistance, imitation and innovation are involved, so that some migrants become ‘ordinary agents of change’ in their local microcosms, while others may contest that change. Tracing these processes in a transnational perspective through a three-year transnational multi-sited qualitative longitudinal research, this article offers an in-depth look at the consequences of human mobility within the enlarged EU

CONTEST · Economic geography · Economics · European union · Geography · German · Imitation · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Thriving · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology

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