(Post)transformational Migration

Perceived inequalities, such as the lack of a proper job or bad living conditions, can play the role of push factors that make people migrate. Apart from this, there are studies which focus more on relative deprivation, exacerbated by inequality, as a basic determinant of people’s mobility, and also some are focused on the influence of income inequality on migration. Such «structural conditions» are only a part of the story of migration, particularly because differences and inequalities are social facts, elements of the universal shape of modern open societies. Ultimately inequality, as more general departure point, can’t be merely an element of explanation, and it is important to remember that not only do «objective» social differences and the inequalities caused by them foster migration behaviour, but so do their social perceptions.

Marek Nowak, PhD in sociology; lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University Pozna? (Poland); specialised in Economic Sociology and sociology of social activism. Micha? Nowosielski, PhD in sociology, Deputy Director of the Institute for Western Affairs, Pozna? (Poland); research interests: Poles in Germany, ethnic and immigrant organizations, diaspora policies.

Contents: Marek Nowak/Micha? Nowosielski: Introduction. Inequalities and migration in Central and Eastern European countries – Marek Nowak: Inequalities and Migration (Mainly from the Polish Perspective). Why Do Central and Eastern European Societies Need More Welfare States? – Alena Pa?ízková: Working Europeans – Guglielmo Meardi: Labour mobility, union immobility? Trade unions & migration in the EU – Serena Romano: Poverty and welfare reforms in Eastern Europe – Iveta ?eš?ne: Emigration as a Strategy of Everyday Politics: the Case of Latvian Labour Emigrants in Ireland – Bart?omiej Walczak: Economic, class, and gender inequalities in parental migration – Konrad Miciukiewicz: Migration and Asylum in Central Eastern Europe: The impacts of European Integration – Micha? Nowosielski: Growth and decline - the situation of Polish immigrant organizations in Germany – Ingrid Jungwirth: The change of normative gender orders in the course of migration: highly qualified migrant women in Germany – Francesca Alice Vianello: Suspended migrants. Return migration to Ukraine – Marta Kolankiewicz: Experiences of Racism and Discrimination among Male Immigrants in Poland. Inhaltsverzeichnis