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Successful Earners and Failing Others: Transnational Orientation as Biographical Resource in the Context of Labor Migration

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: The article discusses how post‐2004 Polish immigrants in Great Britain narrate success and failure in their lives. It identifies and analyses inter‐related narrations specific to the transnational form of migration. It considers migrants’ transnational orientation as a resource for narratively producing a successful biography. The article makes use of a biographical perspective and embeds the analysis in theories of biographical action, while adding new knowledge to the scholarship of migration. It argues that failure is relative to a normatively, locally fixed expectation of success.

Source: International Migration

DOI: 10.1111/imig.12144

Author: Magdalena Nowicka

Institutions: Max Planck Society, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science

Language: English

Topic: Diaspora, migration, transnational identity

Subfield: Demography

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1977299459

FWCI: 5.464

Cites: 46

Cited by: 38

Related to: 10