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1 online resource (345 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1 Setting the conceptual scene: migrations, nation-states, and anthropology of class and ethnicity; Chapter 2 The power of leaving-nation and class in Polish migration culture; Chapter 3 From 'illegals' to EU citizens. The collapse of the communist system and rise of migration as adaptation; Chapter 4 Migration strategies and the making of transnational social fields; Chapter 5 Class, work, and the meaning of transnational social mobility; Chapter 6 Class, ethnicity, and the making of white Poles. |
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Chapter 7 Making Polonia. Power, elites, and the hierarchy of belongingChapter 8 Conclusions: power of the individual; Literature; Globalisation, transnationalism, and nation-states; Transnationalism from below, ways of being, and belonging; Ethnicity: dominant and demotic discourses; Class: objective and subjective dimensions across national borders; Data for this book and the problem of 'waves' of Poles; De-territorialised nation-state; Emigration as a moral issue; Established political transnationalism and the production of Poles; The political making of the Polish diaspora. |
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Migration counter-discourse from belowA missing link-social class and emigration; Previous studies on Poles in Great Britain and their implications; Post-1989 migrations as tested survival strategies; Migrants' agency changing structures of power; The role of the migration industry; Economic and demographic picture-problems and predicaments; Being here and there; Short-term migrants-storks and hamsters; Stayers; The meaning of not knowing; Interdependence of migration strategies; Continuity in place of rapture-boundary redefined; The myth of meritocracy; Push and pull or simply go? |
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The cultural meaning of moaningThe rural/urban divide and the endurance of the rural class; The practice of kombinacje and the Poles from blokowiska; Freedom and work; School of life and egalitarian Poles; Transnational social mobility; Urban middle class in the making; Class, culture, and history; Connections in a new setting; Ethnicity as resource and threat; Class markers among Poles; Dress and looks-the functions of 'how to spot a Pole' game; Public-private consumption of alcohol; Shame, reputation, and class; The myth of the Polish conman. |
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Poles in multicultural London and whiteness as resourcePolonia as timeless settlers; Polonia and the Other; Formal representation and its contestants; New participants in the game; Establishment as buffer zone; Polish ethnicity and making the political transnational social field through exclusion; Post-7/7 London and history recreated; Is there a counter-narrative? |
| Summary |
The figure of the Polish plumber or builder has long been a well-established icon of the British national imagination, uncovering the UK's collective unease with immigration from Central and Eastern Europe. But despite the powerful impact the UK's second largest language group has had on their host country's culture and politics, very little is known about its members. This painstakingly researched book offers a broad perspective on Polish migrants in the UK, taking into account discursive actions, policies, family connections, transnational networks, and political engagement of the diaspora. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Polish people -- England -- London -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Polish people. |
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England -- London. |
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Social conditions. |
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21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Garapich, Michal P. London's Polish Borders : Transnationalizing Class and Ethnicity among Polish Migrants in London. : Columbia University Press, ©2016 9783838208770 |
| ISBN |
9783838266077 (electronic book) |
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3838266072 (electronic book) |
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