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

by Izabela Grabowska, Michal Garapich, Ewa Jazwinska, et al.

Book Overview

This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement social remittances in the same way. Whilst the circulation of ideas, norms and practices is an important aspect of modernity, acts of resistance, imitation and innovation mean that whilst some migrants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349954977
• ISBN13: 9781349954971
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"