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Migration and (Im)Mobility

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In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migr...
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  • 27 February 2018
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In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data gathered among young adults of Polish heritage in Germany and Canada, Wieczorek conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility which illustrate the diversity of immigrants' geographical movements after their initial migration. She thus reveals the different social configurations promoting or hindering the development, maintenance or shifting of each pattern in migrants' biographical trajectories.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 322
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 27 February 2018
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837642513
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Migration and (Im)mobility offers an engaging account of the dynamism of international migration.
Anna Xymena Wieczorek (Dr. phil.), born in 1985, obtained her PhD in sociology within the International Research Training Group "Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces" at the University of Trier. Her research project included several stays abroad at the collaborating Université de Montréal as well as in Toronto and Berlin for field activities. Her research interests are migration, mobility and transnational studies as well as cultural, diversity and gender studies.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
List of Tables, Figures, and Abbreviations 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction: How We Think of Migration and Mobility 13
1 From "Classical" and "New" Approaches in Migration Studies to the "Mobilities Perspective" on Migration 27
2 (Im)Mobile Individuals: Studying Their Biographies 67
Excursus on the Country of Origin: Poland 89
3 Immobility: The Immobile Pattern of Mobility 101
4 Transmobility: The Transnational Pattern of Mobility 145
5 Cosmobility: The Cosmopolitan Pattern of Mobility 219
6 Revisiting Migration through the Patterns of (Im)Mobility 261
Conclusion: How to Rethink Migration and Mobility 293
References 297