Paulina Trevena

Paulina Trevena
  • University of Southampton

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University of Southampton

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The focus of this article is on individual case studies selected for the purpose of illuminating the experiences of post-accession Polish migrant 'family lives' in the United Kingdom (UK). These case studies demonstrate what Morgan (1996) calls the movement of individuals through households and family relationships, simultaneous with the examinatio...
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This article adds to literatures bridging the divide between internal and international migrations by investigating patterns of internal mobility following the international move of post-accession Polish migrants to the UK. Our analysis is based on a large-scale qualitative study carried out among 83 Polish migrants living in urban and rural locati...
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Glasgow is a city well known for bringing together a 'housing need' with a 'housing supply'. Post-accession Poles are the most recent population to fill the 'void' in Glasgow's 'unpopular' and therefore low-demand housing in areas of social deprivation. In this paper we will focus on the intersection of individual paths with institutional projects...
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This article examines data from a qualitative study of post-accession Polish migrants living in the UK. We examine themes from our interviews such as ‘dignity’, ‘normality’, ‘happiness’ and the ‘affordability’ and ‘ease’ of life in the UK (compared to Poland). We focus on the autobiographical or intra-personal discursive practices that define what...
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This paper compares and contrasts some of the conceptual language used to engage with the realm of family and personal life within the parallel fields of transnational family studies (TFS) and British family studies (BFS). Key concepts which are now widely referenced within BFS - such as 'family practices', 'family display', 'families of choice' an...

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