Re-creational travelling: Polish migrants visiting their families in Poland

Wojtyńska, Anna; Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2019.100634

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“…By engaging in imaginaries about returning to one's sending country, migrants can evaluate their relationships with multiple places, and establish their preferred idea of (dis)connecting to these places. Imagination is part of one's identity-building (Sime et al 2020) and enables identity choices by enabling one to produce the hierarchies between localities in a way that correlates with their preferred sense of self (Wojtyńska & Skaptadóttir 2020).…”

Section: Return Imaginaries and The Sense Of Self In Translocal Place...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…'Projected future lives' after return have been discussed by Hatfield (2011), in her work about British returnees. Return visits as the source of forming an idea of returning has been sided by for example Bolognani (2014), Müeller (2015 and Wojtyńska and Skaptadóttir (2020). Finns' return migration has been studied for example related to returnees' reasons for returning and adjusting back to Finland (Saarela & Finnäs 2009;.…”

Section: Return Imaginaries and The Sense Of Self In Translocal Place...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through visits, one reproduces the local and maintains, re-establishes -or abandons -connections to close relationships, culture and roots (Müeller 2015;Tan & Yeoh 2011;Wojtyńska & Skaptadóttir 2020). During visits, one revisits past social and personal referents and evaluates them against the self.…”

Section: Nordia Geographical Publications Xx:xmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As imagination and the ability to produce imaginaries are, for example for Lennon (2015), the prerequisite for experiencing anything, it can be argued that imaginaries are a necessary part of place-making as places are considered lived experiences (Bolognani 2014;Mueller 2015;Wojtyńska & Skaptadóttir 2020). The connections to one's country -and perhaps more importantly, to one's localities and communities -of origin, and one's engagement with the equivalents in the destination country, make 'emplaced communities extended' (Appadurai 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research on translocal migration would benefit from a more adventurous discussion on the linkage between the sense of self, imaginaries, and place-making. Scholars across disciplines have argued that producing imaginaries plays a significant part in migrants' trajectories (Wojtyńska & Skaptadóttir 2020;Koikkalainen & Kyle 2016;Bolognani 2016;Mueller 2015;Bolognani 2014;Smith 2011).…”

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Imagining Finland: negotiating the sense of self through return imaginaries

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When embarking on a migration journey, migrants cultivate personal ideas of themselves ‘here’ and ‘there’. This includes one’s reflections about a possible return – the return imaginaries. They emerge from the time-, place- and person-specific ideas, attitudes, feelings and possibilities before, and after, relocation. Through a digital ethnographic study, this paper seeks to expand the research done on how the so-called ‘middling’ migrants negotiate the sense of self through return imaginaries. I discuss one such group, Finns, in the UK and ask ‘what is the role of return imaginaries in negotiating the sense of self in Finns’ translocal place-making in the UK?’. The results show that Finns’ return imaginaries function as a framework for positioning and reaffirming the self in relation to the UK and Finland during one’s migration trajectory. In relation to their idea of return, Finns negotiate the questions ‘who am I?’ and ‘who do I want to be?’. Through reflecting on the everydayness in the UK and Finland, and their ideas about return visits, Finns produce a ‘translocal sense of self’.

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Emotions and migration in social media discourse: A new Greek migrant case study

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Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi‐locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting

McNeil‐Walsh

2022

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For transnational families, visits represent an opportunity to temporarily punctuate the geographical distance that separates them from significant others in everyday life. Drawing on data from mapping-interviews conducted with older skilled migrants in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, this paper is concerned with how transnational visiting is harnessed to sustain a sense of family togetherness at a later stage of the life course. The discussion contributes to migration scholarship on return visits and visits by relatives to the migration destination but also draws attention to a third dimension of visiting; family meetups in a third space-a location that is neither the country of origin nor the migration destination. Hence, I propose an explicitly spatial, relational conceptualization of transnational family visits, arranged around a multi-local framework: the return visit ('there'); the receiving of visits in the migration destination ('here'); and visits in an in-between geographical space ('somewhere'). In so doing, this paper places the spotlight on the geographies of visiting, drawing attention to the dynamic way in which the practice of transnational family visiting in enacted in later life.

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Re-creational travelling: Polish migrants visiting their families in Poland

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Imagining Finland: negotiating the sense of self through return imaginaries

Imagining Finland: negotiating the sense of self through return imaginaries

Emotions and migration in social media discourse: A new Greek migrant case study

Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi‐locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting

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