Migration and Social Pathways : : Biographies of Highly Educated People Moving East-West-East in Europe.

• Superior document: Qualitative Fall- und Prozessanalysen. Biographie - Interaktion - Soziale Welten Series
• Author: Guhlich, Anna.
• Place / Publishing House: Leverkusen-Opladen : : Verlag Barbara Budrich,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Qualitative Fall- und Prozessanalysen. Biographie - Interaktion - Soziale Welten Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 pages)

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Migration and Social Pathways. Biographies of Highly Educated People Moving East-West-East in Europe
• Acknowledgements
• Preface: Pathways to the research questions
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 The context of EU enlargement
• 1.2 Outline of my research questions
• 1.3 Studying migration and social pathways by means of life stories
• 1.4 Structure of this thesis
• 2 Context: Czech-German border crossings against the backdrop of the shifting landscape of European migration
• 2.1 Historical interconnections over the past millennium
• 2.2 The 19th and 20th century
• 2.3 Border crossings during the Cold War
• 2.4 The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the establishment of new migratory spaces
• 2.5 The enlargement of the EU in 2004 and 2007 and the financial crisis
• 3 Research on highly skilled migration in Europe: state of the art
• 3.1 Changing contexts of highly skilled migration: working towards the liberalisation of skilled migration flows
• 3.2 Rethinking the migration of highly skilled people: the research agenda
• 3.2.1 "Highly skilled migrants" as the subject of research
• 3.2.2 The neglected gender dimension within studies on highly skilled migration
• 3.2.3 Going beyond the dichotomy of "low skilled migration" and "highly skilled migration"
• 3.2.4 Redefining "highly skilled migrants" and "highly skilled migration"
• 3.3 An overview of recent studies on highly skilled migration pathways to and within Europe
• 3.3.1 Education - the ticket to work? Statistical evidence.
• 3.3.2 Legal and institutional frameworks affecting highly skilled migrants: studying the inter play of class, gender and ethnicity
• 3.3.3 An agent-centred approach to pathways to the labour market
• 3.3.4 Experiences and coping strategies for deskilling and contradictory class mobility.
• 3.3.5 The role of the family and social networks
• 3.4 Summary and research desiderata
• 4 Biographical approaches to migration and social mobility
• 4.1 Biographical approaches
• 4.1.1 Historical and theoretical background of the biographicalapproach
• 4.1.2 The central biographical concepts
• 4.2 Biographical approaches to migration
• 4.2.1 First approaches to migration from a biographical perspective
• 4.2.2 Links between the transnational and biographical approach
• 4.3 Shifting social positions in transnational spaces
• 4.3.1 Theorising social mobility in transnational spaces
• 4.3.2 The transferability of skills across borders
• 4.3.3 Translocational positionality
• 4.3.4 Making sense of one's own class positioning
• 4.4 Summary: biographical approaches to migration and social mobility
• 5 The research process
• 5.1 Telling the stories: the theoretical background behind the "biographical narrative interview"
• 5.1.1 Theoretical assumptions
• 5.1.2 The focus on storytelling
• 5.1.3 The autobiographical presentation
• 5.1.4 Narrative constraints
• 5.1.5 Cognitive figures of autobiographical presentation
• 5.2 The reflexive research process
• 5.3 Constructing the sample
• 5.4 Interview settings
• 5.5 The interview process
• 5.6 A brief summary of interviewees
• 5.7 Ethnographical notes
• 5.8 Transcription
• 5.9 Analysis
• 5.9.1 Formal analysis of the text
• 5.9.2 Structural description
• 5.9.3 Analytical abstraction and the construction of types
• 5.10 Reflections on the research process
• 5.10.1 Reflections on the research process in transnational settings
• 5.10.2 The role of language and translation in the research process
• 5.10.3 Being part of it: reflections on my own position within thefield
• 6 Biographies
• 6.1 Background: the Czech educational system.
• 6.2 Lenka: the difficult route from private to publicsphere
• 6.2.1 Interview setting and biographical presentation
• 6.2.2 Lenka's migration and social pathways
• 6.2.3 Summary
• 6.3 Martin: moving places and passing classes
• 6.3.1 Interview setting and biographical presentation
• 6.3.2 Martin's migration and social pathways
• 6.3.3 Summary
• 6.4 Barbora: a story of reorientation
• 6.4.1 Interview setting and biographical presentation
• 6.4.2 Barbora's migration and social pathways
• 6.4.3 Summary
• 6.5 Arnošt: living in "exile"
• 6.5.1 Interview setting and biographical presentation
• 6.5.2 Arnošt's migration and social pathways
• 6.5.3 Summary
• 7 Cross-case comparisons and findings
• 7.1 Biographical reflections on borders and bordercrossings
• 7.1.1 Borders and border regions in biographical renderings
• 7.1.2 Becoming an "Eastern European" after migration
• 7.2 Migration as an enlargement of possibility spaces
• 7.2.1 Experiences of inequality in the region of origin
• 7.2.2 Discovering new possibility spaces through initial border crossings
• 7.2.3 Moving back and forth in transnational spaces
• 7.2.4 Doing "transnational work"
• 7.3 Linking spatial and social mobility
• 7.3.1 Biographies at the intersection of migration and gender regimes
• 7.3.2 Negotiating one's own possibilities, skills and knowledge across borders
• 7.3.3 The question of translatability and recognition of social positions across the border
• 8 Conclusion
• Bibliography and references
• Index.