scholarly journals Winners and Losers Among Skilled Migrants: The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pawel Kaczmarczyk ◽  
Joanna Tyrowicz
Keyword(s):  
Polish Migrants ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Religiosity of Polish Catholics in the UK: Attitude towards Faith, Affiliation, Membership and Religious Practices

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 422
Author(s):  
Marek Wódka ◽  
Stanisław Fel ◽  
Jarosław Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Community Organisations ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Polish Migrants ◽  
Sunday Mass ◽  
The Uk

This paper is based on sociological quantitative studies carried out in 2019 on a sample of 620 Polish Catholics living in London, Swindon, or Oxford. Those studies and their findings are limited only to those Catholics who make up the communities around major Polish institutions in the UK, such as Polish parishes, Saturday schools, and community houses. The goal of this paper is to describe selected aspects of Polish migrants’ religiosity in the new social and cultural milieu. What we focus on here is how Poles themselves describe their faith, how they understand and evaluate their membership of parishes or other religious communities, and how they approach religious practices, especially Sunday Mass attendance. We address the following questions: how do the Poles living abroad describe their attitudes towards faith? How many of them are active members of Polish parishes? What do their religious practices and membership of other community organisations look like? How do specific factors affect the results across these areas?

scholarly journals Migrant place-making in super-diverse neighbourhoods: Moving beyond ethno-national approaches

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 733-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Pemberton ◽  
Jenny Phillimore
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
White Flight ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
New Form ◽  
Polish Migrants ◽  
The Uk

Whilst attention has previously focused on the importance of monolithic ethnic identities on migrant place-making, less attention has been paid to how place-making proceeds in super-diverse urban neighbourhoods where no single ethnic group predominates. This paper makes an original contribution by identifying the factors that shape migrants’ affinity with, or alienation from, super-diverse neighbourhoods. Through using and critiquing an analytical framework developed by Gill (2010 Pathologies of migrant place making: The case of Polish migrants to the UK. Environment and Planning A 42(5): 1157–1173) that identifies ‘ideal’ and ‘pathological’ place-making strategies, the paper contrasts two super-diverse neighbourhoods in the UK with different histories of diversity. We show how ‘ideal’ migrant place-making is more likely to occur where there is a common neighbourhood identity based around diversity, difference and/or newness, and where those with ‘visible’ differences can blend in. In contrast, ‘pathologies’ are more likely where the ongoing churn of newcomers, coupled with the speed and recency of change, undermine migrants’ affinity with place and where the diversity of the neighbourhood is not yet embedded. Even where neighbourhood identity based on diversity is established, it may alienate less visible migrants and culminate in a new form of (minority) white flight.

The intelligentsia informed habitus in social distance strategies of Polish migrants in the UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 951-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafal Smoczynski ◽  
Ian Fitzgerald ◽  
Tomasz Zarycki
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Polish Migrants ◽  
The Uk
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