Migration and (Im)Mobility - Anna Xymena Wieczorek Kartoniert (TB)

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 th e development maintenance or shifting of each pattern in migrants' biographical trajectories.