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Niejednoznaczny wpływ Brexitu na życie młodych Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii

Publication date: 21.12.2020

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2020 (XLVI), Vol. 4 (178), pp. 49 - 70

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.20.038.12775

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Agnieszka Trąbka
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Uniwersytet SWPS
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Iga Wermińska-Wiśnicka
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanisties, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warszawa
Warsaw School of Economics
, Poland
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Niejednoznaczny wpływ Brexitu na życie młodych Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii

Abstract

Ambiguous impact of Brexit on young Poles living in the United Kingdom

The paper aims to analyse the impact of Brexit on the social anchoring of young Poles in the United Kingdom in four spheres of their lives: decision and return plans; application for British citizenship; buying properties; well-being and life satisfaction. The article is based on research conducted within the project „CEEYouth: The comparative study of young migrants from Poland and Lithuania in the context of Brexit”. We also handle statistics data from the Office for National Statistics as well as qualitative data from three waves of Qualitative Longitudinal Research of 41 young (aged 19–34) Polish post-accession migrants in the UK. We find that it is hard to unambiguously assess the impact of Brexit on the mentioned spheres of young Poles’ lives. Firstly, it is caused by the fact that different sources of data show results which are contrasting and secondly, the reactions of people are dynamically changing within the lapse of time. Therefore, it could be surely said that Brexit has impacted the lives of young Polish migrants, but it has caused neither mass return, nor the general willingness to naturalise. Although the results of the Brexit referendum have caused disturbance amid many Poles, it has not impacted their life decisions or, according to statistics, their well-being.

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Information: Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2020 (XLVI), Vol. 4 (178), pp. 49 - 70

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Niejednoznaczny wpływ Brexitu na życie młodych Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii

English:

Ambiguous impact of Brexit on young Poles living in the United Kingdom

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4813-4916

Agnieszka Trąbka
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Uniwersytet SWPS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4813-4916 Orcid
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Uniwersytet SWPS

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4818-3128

Iga Wermińska-Wiśnicka
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanisties, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warszawa
Warsaw School of Economics
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4818-3128 Orcid
All publications →

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanisties, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warszawa

Warsaw School of Economics
Poland

Published at: 21.12.2020

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