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Index
Cover Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 Setting the conceptual scene: migrations, nation-states, and anthropology of class and ethnicity
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
Chapter 2The power of leaving—nation and class in Polish migration culture
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 below A missing link—social class and emigration Previous studies on Poles in Great Britain and their implications
Chapter 3From ‘illegals’ to EU citizens.The collapse of the communist system and rise of migration as adaptation
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
Chapter 4Migration strategies and the making of transnational social fields
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
Chapter 5Class, work, and the meaning of transnational social mobility
The myth of meritocracy Push and pull or simply go? The cultural meaning of moaning The 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
Chapter 6Class, ethnicity, and the making of white Poles
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 resource
Chapter 7Making Polonia. Power, elites, and the hierarchy of belonging
Polonia 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?
Chapter 8Conclusions: power of the individual Literature Notes Copyright
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