Between diasporic engagement and integration: the making of a Polish migrant.

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Between diasporic engagement and integration the
making of a Polish migrant.

• George Kolankiewicz
• CEELBAS

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Some facts

• WRS-630,000 since 2004 65 Poles
• Throughput is likely to be maintained if studies
  of propensity to migrate are realised-171,000
  re-registrations
• Compare to Polish Peasant in Europe and America
• Studies of networks, medical migration, gender,
  social citizenship
• Rich data emerging
• 18-35 years are 83 but 45-64 increasing-caring
  grandparents-transnational extended family.

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Embedded migration

• London as target is declining-saturated?
• Anglia and the North-is this likely to last
  longer
• Income related benefits increasing as is child
  benefit-57,657 approved.
• Now is the time to research decision making by
  households

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Diasporic citizenship

• Rights and obligations of home and host intersect
  and are met by diasporic agency
• Citizenship as concept has been redefined in the
  face of redistributive and identity challenges
• Difference and equality
• European identity mantle

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Diaspora

• Contested, confused.
• Brubaker- retreat from groupism to idiom,
  stance, claim a category of practice used to
  make claims, articulate projects, formulate
  expectations, mobilise energies, appeal to
  loyalties. Diasporic claims come to be resources
  in redistributive quests, modes of legitimation
  in stratification orders, etc
• Mediation, responsibility, agency
• The couple is now intertwined.

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Diasporic integration

• Home state policies to large scale migration
  within an EU context-challenges
• Cost benefit citizenship- tax revenue vs benefit
  entitlement- labour market needs- competitive
  edge- new work ethic-
• Stereotypes-identity politics
• Conflated with other migrations
• No moral panics- role of previous migrations in
  integration rituals-

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Diasporic engagement

• 3 million have tried and 3 million intend to
  migrate-
• Brain drain-medical impact
• Polish charter- east and west- high on political
  agenda
• Consular support, taxation, political rights,
  education for return,
• Impact of return migration on the towns and
  villages where 55 have originated from
• Mass media engagement
• Part of household strategy calculus
• Attitude to becoming target country.

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Diasporic citizenship

• Self organisation- legacy of S.
• Moral milieu- histories and narratives
• New solidarities
• Support or suspicion
• New media new networks new needs
• Cultural developments-
• Cheltenham- 10 Polish,
• Make the most of both integration and engagement
• The first EU generation- Rowntree