Trans-local Lives: Class, Gender and Rurality in post-2004 Migration between Ireland and Poland

Mazurkiewicz, Natalia

ISBN 10: 1912997223 / ISBN 13: 9781912997220

Published by Transnational Press London, 2019

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202 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.46 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trans-local Lives: Class, Gender and Rurality in post-2004 Migration between Ireland and Poland
• Publisher: Transnational Press London
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912997223
• ISBN 13: 9781912997220
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.36 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book explores the nature of post-2004 migration between Ireland and Poland from socio-cultural perspective. It is concerned with the lived experience of migration as encountered by the migrant cohort moving between two non-city locales in Ireland (Newcastle West, Co. Limerick) and Poland (Tczew, pomorskie voivodeship). Of particular concern are the classed and gendered nature of this migration and the impact of the relatively rural places between which the migrants move.The methodology adopted for the study entailed mobile ethnography, that is, ethnography carried out in and between the two locales concerned. The combination of research methods: interviews, observation and photography, enabled for the in-depth insight into the lives of participating Polish families and generation of rich and manifold data. The book is framed by two bodies of theory: theories of migration (specifically, classical and critical migration theories, transnationalism and the mobilities paradigm) and the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu. As such, it contributes in an original way to existing research on contemporary migration flows by producing knowledge based on an examination of the experience of migration as lived and as framed by transnational economic, social, cultural and political logics of practice.This study demonstrates the existence and restructuring of the trans-local habitus as shaped by rurality which generates specific lifestyle and livelihood dispositions for the participating migrant cohort; formations of the migrant working class through constant struggle for livelihood and well-being; negotiations between mobility and emplacement in which certain practices and ways of thinking ‘stick’ and are simultaneously shaped by these mobile ways of living and, finally, the construction of gender identities (Polish femininities and masculinities) as migrants invest in a heteronormative family model and in gendered modes of embodiment as means of fulfilling aspirations for a ‘good life’.(978-1-912997-22-0)