Book Review: Izabela Grabowska (2016), Movers and Stayers: Social Mobility, Migration and Skills
Journal Title: Central and Eastern European Migration Review - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Are migrants ‘special individuals’? This apparently innocent question has been long overlooked by migration studies and by sociology more generally. It is only relatively recently that it has been picked up as a specific key research issue. And with good reasons: with the world migrant population expanding, ‘international mobility’ has been highlighted as a significant cleavage that cuts across societies and cohorts, possibly shaping emerging inequalities and socio-cultural differences. Existing migration theory can, at best, account for the direction and (rough) size of population flows in aggregate terms, but it remains almost blind to the profile of who is going to move and who is, in fact, more likely to stay put in sending communities. This is a serious limitation in both theoretical and policy-oriented terms. Grabowska's book addresses the issue openly with reference to the single largest nationality of migrants within Europe - Poles.
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Ettore Recchi
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