Narrating Migrant Workplace Experiences: Social Remittances to Poland As Knowledge of British Workplace Cultures

• Authors: Haynes Mike , Galasinska Aleksandra
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores how the workplace experience of migrants helps to determine part of the social remittances they can make to their country of origin. The social remittance literature needs to pay more attention to work as an element of the migrant experience. Focus is placed on public internet forums related to newspapers in Poland because these are a very open means of communicating experience to the public sphere. To support the analysis, UK census and other data are used to show both the breadth of work done by Polish migrants in the UK and some of its peculiarities. This is then followed with a more qualitative analysis of selected comments from the gazeta.pl website. The complexities of both the range of migrants’ ideas about their work and also the analysis of internet-based newspaper comment sites as a form of public communication are shown.

Keywords

EN

workplace; social remittances; post-enlargement migration; internet; UK

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań nad Migracjami Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Central and Eastern European Migration Review
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 41-62

Contributors

author

Haynes Mike

author

Galasinska Aleksandra

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