Social Skills, Workplaces and Social Remittances: A Case of Post-Accession Migrants
Authors:
- Izabela Grabowska
Abstract
This article examines how the social skills of migrants are moulded in workplaces and employment-related situations. It surveys literature on social skills, workplaces, social emittances and relational learning. It devotes attention to destination workplaces as spaces where people who left their comfort zones experience disjuncture between origin and destination. This can bring insights, noticing differences and making comparisons. On return to their workplaces in their origin countries, migrants are able to reflect upon and ventually remit these experiences, packaged as social remittances. Three categories of social skill were distilled from biographical interviews with returnees to Poland: (1) the capability for cross-cultural communication; (2) the capability for dealing with emotional labour; (3) the capability for taking initiative and acting independently. The study analysed situations of disjuncture as a result of migration which led to learning, non-learning and alienation. By bringing migration to the forefront, we consider social skills as social remittances.
- Record ID
- SWPSe5f108a2e49147f780ef237ac048808d
- Author
- Journal series
- Work, Employment and Society, ISSN 0950-0170
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 32
- No
- 5
- Pages
- 868-886
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.90
- Keywords in English
- post-accession migrants, social remittances, social skills, workplaces
- ASJC Classification
- ; ; ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.1177/0950017017719840 opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- File
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- File: 1
- I. Grabowska Social skills, workplaces and social remittances - ART.pdf
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- File: 2
- I. Grabowska Social skills, workplaces and social remittances - oswiadczenie.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 35
- Score source
- journalList
- Publication indicators
- : 2017 = 1.775; : 2017 = 2.195 (2) - 2017=2.799 (5)
- Citation count
- 14
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- Uniform Resource Identifier
- http://192.168.13.97/info/article/SWPSe5f108a2e49147f780ef237ac048808d/
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