Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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
Book Title: Coming Home to an (Un)familiar Country
Book Subtitle: The Strategies of Returning Migrants
Authors: Mariusz Dzięglewski
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64296-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64295-2Published: 31 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64298-3Published: 31 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64296-9Published: 30 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 371
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Sciences, general