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Author Knight, Julie, Ph. D., author.

Title Labour, mobility and temporary migration : a comparative study of Polish migration to Wales / Julie Knight, John Lever and Andrew Thompson
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustration, maps
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Part I; Chapter 1: EU Enlargement, Migration and the UK; Chapter 2: Theorising Migration -- Understanding Motivations, Networks and Mobility; Chapter 3: Locations and Research Methodology; Part II; Chapter 4: Why Migrate? Motivations and Migrant Decision-Making; Chapter 5: Polish Migrants in Cardiff: Changing Motivations in a Diverse City Environment; Chapter 6: Polish Workers in Merthyr Tydfil: Happily Resigned to Life in the Valleys?
Chapter 7: Polish Migrants in Llanelli: What Happens after the Initial Migration Period?Part III; Chapter 8: 'Migratory Drift' (or Why Migrants Nearly Always Stay Longer than Planned); Chapter 9: Polish Migrant Integration; Chapter 10: Policy Implications; Notes; References; Index; Back Cover
Summary This book considers contemporary Polish migration to three distinctly different areas of Wales, and accounts for the migrants' unexpectedly long-term stay in the UK as well as the impact of long-term migration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-247) and index
Notes Print version record
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 18, 2017)
Subject Polish people -- Wales -- History -- 21st century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- Wales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Polish people
SUBJECT Wales -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Wales
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lever, John (John B.), author.
Thompson, Andrew, 1968- author.
ISBN 9781786830814
1786830817
1786830817
Other Titles Labor, mobility and temporary migration