Coming Home to an (Un)familiar Country
The Strategies of Returning Migrants
Authors: Dzięglewski, Mariusz
- Combines micro and macro approaches to return migrants’ life trajectories to paint a full picture of returnees’ “life worlds”
- Provides an alternative to the dominant transnational approach to return migration
- Creates a typology or taxonomy of returning migrants’ strategies cutting across five dimensions, giving a holistic and multidimensional perspective on migration
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Mariusz Dzięglewski 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.
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Coming Home to an (Un)familiar Country
- Book Subtitle
- The Strategies of Returning Migrants
- Authors
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- Mariusz Dzięglewski
- Series Title
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-64296-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-64296-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-64295-2
- Series ISSN
- 2662-2602
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 371
- Number of Illustrations
- 41 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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