Convivial Cultures in Multicultural Cities: Polish Migrant Women in Manchester and Barcelona

ISBN-13: 9780815377924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 154 str.

Alina Rzepnikowska

Opis

This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and Barcelona, with attention to the ways in which difference is negotiated and managed through everyday practices of conviviality, which help to overcome hierarchies and create elements of sameness.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: setting the context;  2. Conceptual considerations and the research;  3. Conviviality in Manchester and Barcelona (and their environs);  4. Conviviality in the workplace;  5. Brexit narratives: conviviality under threat?;  6. Conclusions: the future of conviviality in Manchester and Barcelona

O autorze

Alina Rzepnikowksa is Lecturer in Sociology, the School of Social Sciences at the University of Manchester, UK.