01582nas a2200157 4500008004100000022001400041245008800055210006900143260001200212300001200224490000600236520105500242653003801297100001901335856007001354 2017 eng d a2300-168200aIzabela Grabowska (2016), Movers and Stayers: Social Mobility, Migration and Skills0 aIzabela Grabowska 2016 Movers and Stayers Social Mobility Migrat c08/2017 a120-1220 v63 a

Are migrants ‘special individuals’? This apparently innocent question has been long overlooked by migration studies and by sociology more generally. It is only relatively recently that it has been picked up as a specific key research issue. And with good reasons: with the world migrant population expanding, ‘international mobility’ has been highlighted as a significant cleavage that cuts across societies and cohorts, possibly shaping emerging inequalities and socio-cultural differences. Existing migration theory can, at best, account for the direction and (rough) size of population flows in aggregate terms, but it remains almost blind to the profile of who is going to move and who is, in fact, more likely to stay put in sending communities. This is a serious limitation in both theoretical and policy-oriented terms. Grabowska’s book addresses the issue openly with reference to the single largest nationality of migrants within Europe – Poles. 

10asocial mobility; migration; Poles1 aRecchi, Ettore uhttp://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/Rechci_Book_Review.pdf