Place Belonging in a Mobile World: A Case Study of Migrant Professionals
Authors:
- Agnieszka Bielewska,
- Krzysztof Jaskułowski
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of spatial mobility on international professionals’ experience of place belonging. Drawing on quali-tative research carried out in the Wroclaw subzone of the Walbrzych Special Economic Zone in Poland, the article explores the question of the identity of migrant professionals in the context of their connection with places. It analy-ses how migrant professionals perceive both their place of origin and the place they currently inhabit and considers the specifi c practices migrants engage in to strengthen old bonds and establish new ones. Despite their high mobility, migrant professionals cannot always be described in terms of placelessness belonging. On the contrary, migrant professionals show a relatively strong connection to their place of origin and some of them attempts to form ties with their current place of stay.
- Record ID
- SWPS84186a41716a47c4bd68a88eff971787
- Author
- Journal series
- Sociologicky Casopis-Czech Sociological Review, ISSN 0038-0288
- Issue year
- 2017
- Vol
- 53
- No
- 3
- Pages
- 343-367
- Publication size in sheets
- 1.20
- Keywords in English
- transnational professionals, highly skilled migrants, belonging, place, Poland
- ASJC Classification
- DOI
- DOI:10.13060/00380288.2017.53.3.335 opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312938494_Place_belonging_in_a_mobile_world_The_case_study_of_migrant_professionals_Czech_Sociological_Review_2017_3_forthcoming opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- File
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- File: 1
- 31. Jaskułowski_Bielewska_Place Belonging.pdf
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- Additional file
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- File: 1
- 31a. Oswiadczenie Place KJ.pdf
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- File: 2
- 31b. oswiadczenie Place Agnieszka.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 20
- Score source
- journalList
- Publication indicators
- : 2017 = 0.357; : 2017 = 0.432 (2) - 2017=0.421 (5); = 12
- Citation count
- 12
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- Uniform Resource Identifier
- http://bw.swps.edu.pl/info/article/SWPS84186a41716a47c4bd68a88eff971787/
* presented citation count is obtained through Internet information analysis and it is close to the number calculated by the Publish or Perishopening in a new tab system.