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25.01.06, 17:21
Mamy tu sporo intelektualistek i pasjonatek, wiec moze kogos zainteresuje:
CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism)
Spring 2006 Seminar Series
January 30th (Monday), 2006
Department of Economics (School of Human Sciences)
University of Surrey
Room 04AD00
5.00 - 6.30 pm
Researching Ethnicity and Class: London’s New Poles
Michal Garapich and John Eade, CRONEM
Although substantial numbers of Poles settled in Britain after 1940, they
have attracted relatively scant interest among social scientists. Recent
migration by ‘new Poles’ has led to media interest bound up with immigration
and competition for jobs but our ESRC project is the first to tackle the
issues of ethnicity and class through a methodology which draws on economics
(through Stephen Drinkwater) and sociology and anthropology (John Eade and
Michal Garapich).
The CRONEM Seminar provides us with an opportunity to reflect on the data we
have collected so far on this one-year project. We also want to discuss the
analytical models, which may be useful in analysing the data.
We will focus here on the qualitative data generated from 75% of the planned
50 in-depth interviews. One of the most striking features of these interviews
is the way in which our respondents talk about their Polish identity at
length but then falter when we invite them to discuss class. As highly mobile
actors in today’s post-industrial economy they seem to want to contest or
make class notions and status boundaries irrelevant. They emphasise their
position as individuals and the uses to which they put collective Polish
identity in specific social and economic contexts.
We will explore the reasons for this situation in the context of
globalization, transnational networks, the global city, competition within
the post-industrial service economy, racial and ethnic difference, the
changing social and economic character of Poland and the respondents’ self-
perception as temporary or circular migrants.
