London's Polish Borders: Transnationalizing Class and Ethnicity among Polish Migrants in London 9783838266077, 3838266072

Table of contents :
Intro
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1 Setting the conceptual scene: migrations, nation-states, and anthropology of class and ethnicity
Chapter 2 The power of leaving-nation and class in Polish migration culture
Chapter 3 From 'illegals' to EU citizens. The collapse of the communist system and rise of migration as adaptation
Chapter 4 Migration strategies and the making of transnational social fields
Chapter 5 Class, work, and the meaning of transnational social mobility
Chapter 6 Class, ethnicity, and the making of white Poles. Chapter 7 Making Polonia. Power, elites, and the hierarchy of belongingChapter 8 Conclusions: power of the individual
Literature
Globalisation, transnationalism, and nation-states
Transnationalism from below, ways of being, and belonging
Ethnicity: dominant and demotic discourses
Class: objective and subjective dimensions across national borders
Data for this book and the problem of 'waves' of Poles
De-territorialised nation-state
Emigration as a moral issue
Established political transnationalism and the production of Poles
The political making of the Polish diaspora. Migration counter-discourse from belowA missing link-social class and emigration
Previous studies on Poles in Great Britain and their implications
Post-1989 migrations as tested survival strategies
Migrants' agency changing structures of power
The role of the migration industry
Economic and demographic picture-problems and predicaments
Being here and there
Short-term migrants-storks and hamsters
Stayers
The meaning of not knowing
Interdependence of migration strategies
Continuity in place of rapture-boundary redefined
The myth of meritocracy
Push and pull or simply go? The cultural meaning of moaningThe rural/urban divide and the endurance of the rural class
The practice of kombinacje and the Poles from blokowiska
Freedom and work
School of life and egalitarian Poles
Transnational social mobility
Urban middle class in the making
Class, culture, and history
Connections in a new setting
Ethnicity as resource and threat
Class markers among Poles
Dress and looks-the functions of 'how to spot a Pole' game
Public-private consumption of alcohol
Shame, reputation, and class
The myth of the Polish conman. Poles in multicultural London and whiteness as resourcePolonia as timeless settlers
Polonia and the Other
Formal representation and its contestants
New participants in the game
Establishment as buffer zone
Polish ethnicity and making the political transnational social field through exclusion
Post-7/7 London and history recreated
Is there a counter-narrative?

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