01617nas a2200145   4500008004100000022001400041245012800055210006900183300001000252490000600262520100000268653007701268100002101345856010501366       2016                        eng d  a2300-168200aFrom Potential to Actual Social Remittances? Exploring How Polish Return Migrants Cope with Difficult Employment Conditions0 aFrom Potential to Actual Social Remittances Exploring How Polish  a21-390 v53 a<p>The aim of this paper is to examine individual social remittances in the sphere of employment, against the background of the changing employment patterns and flexibilisation of work. Through an analysis of life stories of post-accession return migrants from the UK to Poland, it investigates the way in which returnees&rsquo; work experience gathered abroad impacts on their perception of employment standards in general. The revealed differences are understood as &lsquo;potential social remittances,&rsquo; i.e. the discrepancies acknowledged by returnees between the realities experienced during emigration and after their return (in this case to Poland). It is argued that the actualisation of the &lsquo;potential social remittances&rsquo; depends on return migrants&rsquo; coping strategies as well as on the institutional and structural settings in returnees&rsquo; home country. The four main distinguished strategies are: re-emigration, activism, adaptation and entrepreneurship.</p>10areturn migration; social remittances; precarisation; employment patterns1 aKarolak, Mateusz  uhttp://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/Karolak_From_Potential_to_Actual_Social_Remittances_0.pdf