MIGRATION IMAGES: BETWEEN CHANCES AND RISK (BASED ON STUDIES ON UKRAINIAN WOMEN MIGRANTS IN POLAND) (Wyobrazenia migracji: miedzy mozliwosciami a ryzykiem)

• Authors: Kindler Marta
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses migration images of Ukrainian migrant women who work in Poland in the domestic sector. It discusses the types of imagined opportunities and risks related to women going abroad to work creating so called 'imagined opportunity spaces'. Based on the interviewed migrant women's opinions, opportunities are defined as potential wanted outcomes and risk as potential unwanted outcomes of the undertaken activities. The images related to migrant work result from the working conditions existing in the country of origin, from spatial and cultural proximity between the country of origin and country of migration, as well as from gender. This study is based on in-depth interviews conducted in 2005 and 2006 with Ukrainian women working as cleaners and care workers in Warsaw and its suburbs. The article starts with a short introduction about the notion of imagined communities and transnational imagined spaces. It continues with the analysis of the situation of the Ukrainian women in their place of origin before leaving and the development of an imagined transnational opportunity space. The study also addresses the images of migrant work in Poland and in other countries, as well as images concerning migrant domestic work.

Keywords

EN

IMAGINED OPPORTUNITY SPACES; IMAGINED RISK SPACES; MIGRANTS-DOMESTICS; MIGRATIONS FROM UKRAINE TO POLAND

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Polska Akademia Umiejętności
• Journal: Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1(131)
• Pages: 47-59
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kindler Marta

• Marta Kindler, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Osrodek Badan nad Migracjami, ul. Banacha 2b, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077325