Overview
- Sheds new light on the role of social remittances in migration
- Shares cutting-edge material from a major research project
- Puts individual agency centre stage
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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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 become ordinary agents of social change in their local microcosms, others may contest that change. By putting this individual agency centre stage, the authors trace how social remittances are evolving, and the ambiguous impact that they have on society. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, geography and anthropology.
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Reviews
“Migrants As Agents of Change makes a significant contribution to the existing theoretical, methodological and empirical literature on social remittances. … this is a very imaginative and scholarly book, which makes a substantial theoretical and empirical contribution to existing migration scholarship, and deserves to be widely read.” (Anne White, Central and Eastern European Migration Review, Vol. 5 (2), 2016)
“A topical book on the “soft modernisation” of a post-communist society through migratory social remittances. The authors observe very carefully what people bring back beyond money to their sending local communities, and how these novelties are adopted, disseminated or resisted. It is an invaluable contribution to all theorists and practitioners of social change. Thanks to its transnational and longitudinal approach it is one of the most valuable qualitative in-depth study on migrants and their local communities I have recently read.” (Marek Okólski, University of Warsaw and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland)
“In a world in which sending governments look increasingly to emigrants’ economic and social contributions, this book is an invaluable guide to how and when innovation, or resistance to it, occur.” (Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and Harvard University, USA)
“This book makes a ground-breaking contribution to the literature on socialremittances and migrant agency.” (Anne White, University College London, UK)
“Using rich multi-sited ethnography, this book offers fascinating insights into the opportunities, resistances and processes of social remittances.” (Louise Ryan, Middlesex University, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Izabela Grabowska is Professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland, and International Research Coordinator at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Michal P. Garapich is Senior lecturer at University of Roehampton, UK.
Ewa Jazwinska is Methodological Coordinator at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Agnieszka Radziwinowicz is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Sociology and the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Michal P. Garapich is Senior lecturer at University of Roehampton, UK.
Ewa Jazwinska is Methodological Coordinator at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Agnieszka Radziwinowicz is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Sociology and the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migrants as Agents of Change
Book Subtitle: Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union
Authors: Izabela Grabowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ewa Jaźwińska, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59066-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Limited 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59065-7Published: 16 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95497-1Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59066-4Published: 09 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 249
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, European Union Politics