Coming Home to an (Un)familiar Country

The Strategies of Returning Migrants
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-64295-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 371 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 623 g

Reihe: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

This volume focuses on the process of return migration, from a holistic and policy-oriented perspective. Studies in return migration, which remains a vibrant field for academics, researchers, and policy-makers, have provided a large body of knowledge on particular issues, but generally fall along two lines: they are either broad macro analyses and models (especially economic ones) or narrow ethnographic views (anthropological, sociological, or psychological). This volume attempts to chart a course between these two approaches, combining returning migrants’ life trajectories, as seen by themselves, with analysis of the structural processes that have taken place in the last three decades in Europe and in Poland, as a new EU country. In analyzing the social and cultural changes reflected in the biographies of returning migrants, the author uses a framework based on an original synthesis of Alfred Schütz’s phenomenological approach, focusing on the returnees’ “life words,” with the social realism of Margaret Archer, focusing on the concerns and projects of individuals interacting with social and cultural structures.   

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dzi¿glewski, Mariusz

Dzieglewski, Mariusz

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: Migratory streams in Europe and in Poland.- Chapter 2: What Do We Know and How Can We Learn More about Homecoming?.- Chapter 3: The Structural Background of Migration and Homecoming in Europe after 2004.- Chapter 4: Homecomers’ Perceptions of Opportunities and Constraints in the Migration Cycle.- Chapter 5: Aspects of Return Migrants’ Strategies.- Chapter 6: One of Us or Stranger? A taxonomy of Homecomers.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Mariusz Dzieglewski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland, where he also runs an inLAB – Research and Innovation Centre focusing on professional qualitative and quantitative research in culture, education, and B&R.