Childbearing and Parental Decisions of Intra EU Migrants
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- ISBN 9783631665145
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 05 Oct 2018
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Weronika Kloc-Nowak received a Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She works as a sociologist at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland, and is specialised in the internal dynamics of migrant families, intergenerational relations and gender perspective on migration.
