| Descript |
1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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 belonging -- Chapter 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 |
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The political making of the Polish diaspora -- Migration counter-discourse from below -- A 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 |
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Continuity in place of rapture-boundary redefined -- The myth of meritocracy -- Push and pull or simply go? -- The cultural meaning of moaning -- The 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 |
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Public-private consumption of alcohol -- Shame, reputation, and class -- The myth of the Polish conman -- Poles in multicultural London and whiteness as resource -- Polonia 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? |
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Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9783838266077 |
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