In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological conceptual and empirical dualism
of mobility and migration Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a mobilities perspective by combining
migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich
empirical data gathered among young adults of Polish heritage in Germany and Canada Wieczorek
conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility which illustrate the diversity of immigrants'
geographical movements after their initial migration. She thus reveals the different social
configurations promoting or hindering the development maintenance or shifting of each pattern
in migrants' biographical trajectories.
