An ‘undeliberate determinacy’? The changing migration strategies of Polish migrants in the UK in times of Brexit
An ‘undeliberate determinacy’? The changing migration strategies of Polish migrants in the UK in times of Brexit
In this paper we investigate the changes in Polish migrants’ so-called habitus of ‘deliberate indeterminacy’ as consequence of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union. The paper reformulates classical questions regarding migrants’ plans to remain in the host country or to leave, in a ‘rights-based’ framework, where we consider migrants attitudes towards ‘civic integration’ measures such as permanent residence and naturalisation. Based on the quantitative analysis of original survey data we investigate the factors behind Polish migrants’ migration strategies, and we argue that basic socioeconomic and demographic factors are inadequate, on their own terms, to explain future migration and civic integration plans. Instead, we find that aspects such as interest in and awareness of one’s rights, as well as anxieties about the future are stronger determinants.
Polish migrants, Brexit, UK
2109-2130
Mcghee, Derek
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Moreh, Chris
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Vlachantoni, Athina
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Mcghee, Derek
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Moreh, Chris
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Mcghee, Derek, Moreh, Chris and Vlachantoni, Athina
(2017)
An ‘undeliberate determinacy’? The changing migration strategies of Polish migrants in the UK in times of Brexit.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43 (13), .
(doi:10.1080/1369183X.2017.1299622).
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the changes in Polish migrants’ so-called habitus of ‘deliberate indeterminacy’ as consequence of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union. The paper reformulates classical questions regarding migrants’ plans to remain in the host country or to leave, in a ‘rights-based’ framework, where we consider migrants attitudes towards ‘civic integration’ measures such as permanent residence and naturalisation. Based on the quantitative analysis of original survey data we investigate the factors behind Polish migrants’ migration strategies, and we argue that basic socioeconomic and demographic factors are inadequate, on their own terms, to explain future migration and civic integration plans. Instead, we find that aspects such as interest in and awareness of one’s rights, as well as anxieties about the future are stronger determinants.
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Submitted date: 3 January 2017
Accepted/In Press date: 21 February 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 March 2017
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Polish migrants, Brexit, UK
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Social Statistics & Demography, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, Gerontology
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/405832
ISSN: 1369-183X
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