Date: 2018
Type: Book
Childbearing and parental decisions of intra EU migrants : a biographical analysis of Polish migrants to the UK and Italy
Berlin : Peter Lang, 2018, Migration-ethnicity-nation : studies in culture, society and politics ; 5
KLOC-NOWAK, Weronika, Childbearing and parental decisions of intra EU migrants : a biographical analysis of Polish migrants to the UK and Italy, Berlin : Peter Lang, 2018, Migration-ethnicity-nation : studies in culture, society and politics ; 5
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60705
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
The book explores intra-EU mobility of Polish families as seen by the migrants themselves. The author analyses in what way mobility has influenced their choices regarding if, when and where to have and raise their children. She evaluates how the family dynamics have affected their decisions regarding long-term settlement. The analysis is based on narrative biographic interviews with Polish migrants in Great Britain and Italy. A recurring experience of migrants in the UK was that work and welfare conditions improved their families’ quality of life, allowed them to fulfil desired fertility, and offered better prospects for the future. The opinions on welfare conditions in Italy were more critical, however it also offered long-term stability to the ones who had been struggling to survive in Poland.
Table of Contents:
-- Cover;
-- Acknowledgements;
-- Table of contents;
-- List of tables;
-- List of figures;
-- Introduction;
-- Chapter 1. Contextual and conceptual background and aims of the study;
-- 1.1 Theoretical perspectives on female and family migration and their application to Polish migration to the UK and Italy;
-- 1.2 Research questions and outline of the analysis;
-- 1.3 The relationship between migration and fertility decisions;
-- 1.4 Migrants' parental decisions in the institutional context;
-- Chapter 2. Methods and techniques of data collection and analysis;
-- 2.1 Grounded theory;
-- 2.2 Biographical method
-- 2.3 Sociological life course approach
-- 2.4 Participants' selection;
-- 2.5 Techniques of data collection;
-- Chapter 3. Post-accession migration from Poland to Italy and the UK in the demographic, family and welfare policies contexts;
-- 3.1 Demographic characteristics of post-EU accession Polish migrants;
-- 3.2 Polish immigrants in Italy;
-- 3.3 Polish immigrants in the UK;
-- 3.4 Selected family living patterns;
-- 3.5 Family welfare regulations;
-- 3.6 Conclusions: migrating into different socio-economic contexts;
-- Chapter 4. Managing childbearing in a new country
-- 4.1 Factors taken into account in planning childbearing
-- 4.2 When life does not go the way it was planned;
-- 4.3 Impact of pregnancy on women's economic activity;
-- 4.4 Conclusions;
-- Chapter 5. Providing care for small children;
-- 5.1 Anticipating childcare arrangements;
-- 5.2 Organising childcare;
-- 5.3 Attitudes to spending time with and caring for one's children;
-- 5.4 Grandparents' assistance in caring for grandchildren;
-- 5.5 Conclusions;
-- Chapter 6. Educational choices of Polish parents abroad;
-- 6.1 Preparing to start school in the country of immigration
-- 6.2 Choices regarding education of migrant teenagers
-- 6.3 Educating Polish children abroad: language and culture;
-- 6.4 Class and attitudes to education;
-- 6.5 Gendered division of responsibility for schooling;
-- 6.6 Conclusions;
-- Chapter 7. Construction of the trajectories of Polish intra-EU migrants in a biographical perspective;
-- 7.1 Struggle for survival, followed by search for stability;
-- 7.2 Lifestyle preferences as a basis for settlement;
-- 7.3 Delayed but unavoidable migration;
-- 7.4 "Pace of change" -- the progress reinforcing the decision for settlement;
-- 7.5 Sacrifice for love and family
-- 7.6 The relation between settlement and the original migration project
-- 7.7 Conclusions;
-- Conclusions;
-- Annex 1. Profiles of the interviewees;
-- References
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60705
Full-text via DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-05785-0
ISBN: 9783631665145; 9783631704240
Publisher: Peter Lang
Sponsorship and Funder information:
This book has been published with a financial subsidy from the European University Institute.
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/34203
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2015
