1st Edition

How Migrants Choose Their Destinations Factors Influencing Post-EU Accession Choices and Decisions to Remain

By Dominika Pszczółkowska Copyright 2024
    218 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book reveals how decisions regarding where to migrate are made, what factors are considered, how these change over time and why some destinations are more attractive to certain categories of people.

    Based on rich existent, and new data, the book explains the destination choices of Polish migrants to the four most frequently chosen destinations countries: the UK, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. Examined through a sophisticated theoretical framework allowing for the incorporation of factors resulting from several fields – economics, public policies, demography – and migration theories, it paints a nuanced and balanced picture of European migration.

    This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration studies, Central and Eastern European politics, and more broadly to sociology, political science, social geography and international relations.

    The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

    Introduction

    1. Two decades of East–West migration in the enlarged European Union

    2. Push and pull factors of post-accession migrations from Poland

    3. Why are theories of migration so poor at explaining destination choice?

    4. Recruiting respondents and conducting qualitative migration research online

    5. The United Kingdom: where the wild things were

    6. Ireland: Where the calm things were

    7. Germany: The convenient life near home

    8. The Netherlands: The second-best destination

    9. Reasons to remain: Liquid migrants seeking solid lives

    10. Conclusions

    Biography

    Dominika Pszczółkowska is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, Poland.