Migrants As Agents of Change : Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Charts -- List of Maps -- 1: Introduction: Social Remittances and "Hand-Made" Change by Migrants -- 1.1 Socio-demographic Portrait of Migrating Poles Since EU Enlargement in May 2004 -- 1.2 Social Remittances, "Hand-Made" Social Change and Research Questions -- 1.3 Context-Dependency of Migration and Change: Three Communities Under Study -- 2: Process of Transfer of Social Remittances in the European Union -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Social Remittances in Migration Studies -- 2.3 Theoretical Concepts and Process of Social Remitting -- 2.4 Social Indicators of Social Remittances -- 2.5 Acquisition of Social Remittances -- 2.6 Transfer of Social Remittances -- 2.7 Outcomes of Transfer of Social Remittances -- 2.8 Resistance to Social Remittances -- 2.9 Conceptual Model and Summary -- 3: Transnational Multisited Qualitative Longitudinal Research in Investigating Social Remittances and Change -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Method: Transnational Multisited Qualitative Longitudinal Research -- 3.3 Sampling Case Sites and People -- Going Local: Sampling Case Sites and Revisiting Them -- Sampling People and Maintaining Them in the Panel Research -- Local Observers -- Migrants and Returnees -- 3.4 Management of Data Collection and Simultaneity of Field Researchers -- 4: Researched Communities in Poland and in the UK: Transnational Spaces of Diffusion and Social Remittances -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Sokolka -- Outline of the History of the Town -- Pre-accession Migration in the Community -- EU Accession -- Migration to the UK -- 4.3 Pszczyna -- Outline of the History of the Town -- Pre-accession Migration in the Community -- EU Accession -- Migration to the UK -- 4.4 Trzebnica -- Outline of the History of the Town -- Pre-accession Migration in the Community -- EU Accession.

Migration to the UK -- 4.5 Summary -- 5: Observing, Acquiring, Resisting: Migrants' Agency in the Web of Social Remittances -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Facing Novelty: Migrants in New Context -- 5.3 Norms of Civility and Living with Strangers -- 5.4 Acquiring Tolerance? -- Ways of Being, Ways of Resisting -- 5.5 Place-making and Remittances -- 5.6 Summary -- 6: Collective Outcomes of Social Remittances: Reactions of Local Communities (Acceptance and Resistance) -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Transfer of Migratory Novelties to Communities -- 6.3 Ways of Transfer -- 6.4 Changes in Local Communities and the Collective Effect of Social Remittances -- 6.5 Outcomes of Transfer -- Individual Outcomes -- Collective Outcomes of Migration Transfer -- 6.6 No Changes -- 6.7 Factors that Inhibit Cultural Diffusion: Social Resistance in the Studied Communities -- 6.8 Concluding Remarks -- 7: Migrants as Agents of Micro Social Changes -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Individuals, Social Remittances, Agency and Change -- 7.3 How Agents of Change Are Filtered Out from the Wider Samples -- 7.4 Testimonials of Agents of Change -- 7.5 Testimonial of the Cosmetician from Sokolka: "Beauty Parlour as a Space for Diffusing Social Remittances" -- Social Portrait -- Acquisition and Agency -- Transfer and Its Outcomes and Agency -- 7.6 Testimonial of the Bar Tender in Pszczyna: "Bar Counter as a Space for Diffusing Social Remittances" -- Social Portrait -- Acquisition and Agency -- Transfer and Its Outcomes and Agency -- 7.7 Testimonial of the Town Socialiser: "Network of Friends and Social Life as Spaces for Diffusing Social Remittances" -- Social Portrait -- Acquisition and Agency -- Transfer and Its Outcomes and Agency -- 7.8 Testimonial of the Nurse in Trzebnica: "Nursing Home as a Space for Diffusing Social Remittances" -- Social Portrait.

Acquisition and Agency -- Transfer and Its Outcomes and Agency -- 7.9 Concluding Remarks -- 8: Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

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