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Gawlewicz, Anna
(2015).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11143/46322
Abstract
In an era of accelerated international mobility, individuals have increased opportunities to confront values, practices and discourses linked to their national belonging with lifestyles, cultural scripts and social norms of receiving societies. This paper discusses how migrants who move between a relatively homogeneous society (Poland) and a superdiverse one (the UK), negotiate ‘the national’ and ‘the foreign’ in orientalist binary oppositions. It explores how Polish migrants’ lived experience of difference in the UK context impacts on the construction of Poland. As such, it focuses on essentialist discourses of ‘inferiority’ and ‘superiority’ (of the UK to Poland and vice versa) that are mobilised while migrants negotiate what they believe are British values (i.e. tolerance and diversity) and Polish values (i.e. family). The article draws upon multiple interviews and audio-diaries from a wider study that explores Polish migrants’ encounters with difference and the circulation of values and attitudes between Poland and the UK.
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- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1798-5617
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body “Living with Difference in Europe: making communities out of strangers in an era of super mobility and super diversity” (LIVEDIFFERENCE 249658 European Research Council - Keywords
- Polish migrants in UK; nationalism; encounters; diversity; family values; multiple interviews; audio-diaries
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Geography
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Depositing User
- Anna Gawlewicz