Full Description
Since the 2004 enlargement of the European Union over half a million Polish migrants have registered to work in the United Kingdom, constituting one of the largest migration movements in contemporary Europe. Drawing on research undertaken across a wide range of disciplines - history, economics, sociology, anthropology, film studies and discourse analysis - and focusing on both the Polish and British aspects of this phenomenon - both emigration and immigration - this edited collection investigates what is actually new about this migration flow, what its causes and consequences are, and how these migrants' lives have changed by moving to the United Kingdom. As the first book to deal with Polish migration to the United Kingdom, Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union will appeal to scholars across a range of social sciences, whose work concerns migration and the migration process.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface; Introduction, Kathy Burrell; Part I Contexts, Strategies and Discourses of Emigration; Chapter 1 Migration: A Threat or a Chance? Recent Migration of Poles and its Impact on the Polish Labour Market, Agnieszka Fihel, Pawe? Kaczmarczyk; Chapter 2 Changing Patterns of Polish Labour Migration after the UK's Opening of the Labour Market? Insights from Rural Case-studies in the Opolskie and ?wi?tokrzyskie Voivodship, Tim Elrick, Emilia Brinkmeier; Chapter 3 Family Migration from Small-town Poland, Anne White; Chapter 4 Discourses of a 'Normal Life' among Post-accession Migrants from Poland to Britain, Aleksandra Galasi?ska, Olga Koz?owska; Chapter 5 In Search of Freedom, Bread and Self-fulfilment, Ewa Mazierska; Part II Experiences of Immigration and 'Settlement'; Chapter 6 Shared History? Polish Migrant Experiences and the Politics of Display in Northern Ireland, Maruška Svašek; Chapter 7 Recent Polish Migrants in London: Accessing and Part icipating in Social Networks across Borders, Louise Ryan, Rosemary Sales, Mary Tilki; Chapter 8 UK Poles and the Negotiation of Gender and Ethnic Identity in Cyberspace, Bernadetta Siara; Chapter 9 'This is Special Humour', Ayona Datta; Chapter 10 The Material Worlds of Recent Polish Migrants, Marta Rabikowska, Kathy Burrell; Conclusion, Kathy Burrell;
