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The process of social remitting is complex, multilayered and involves numerous social actors that at each stage face several choices of action. By definition, the process of socially remitted ideas, codes of behaviour and practices starts with the migrants themselves and their social context in the destination country. This chapter traces in detail what happens when migrants are exposed to new settings, how they make sense of this logic of novelty and unfamiliarity, what they choose as beneficial and potentially valuable or not, once they get to know the details of British social life. Faithful to our understanding of social remittances as ultimately a process where individual agency is the dominant determinant, we follow the routes, ideas, practices and values that travel within the transnational social field between Britain and various localities in Poland.
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Grabowska, I., Garapich, M.P., Jaźwińska, E., Radziwinowiczówna, A. (2017). Observing, Acquiring, Resisting: Migrants’ Agency in the Web of Social Remittances. In: Migrants as Agents of Change. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59066-4_5
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