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Capturing the flexibility of adaptation and settlement: anchoring in a mobile society

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  • Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska

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Drawing on interviews with 40 Polish migrants in the UK, ethnographic and autobiographical research, the article applies the concept of anchoring to theorise the flexibility of migrants’ adaptation and ‘settlement’. Simultaneity, multidimensionality and changeability of anchoring and the reverse processes of un-anchoring are examined here to bridge the divide between the ‘sedentarist’ and the mobility perspectives. The paper particularly focuses on anchors overlooked in the adaptation and integration literature, such as: performing gender; daily practices; spirituality; leisure activities; attachment to nature; material objects and technology; as well as constraining illnesses and addictions.

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  • Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska, 2018. "Capturing the flexibility of adaptation and settlement: anchoring in a mobile society," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(5), pages 632-646, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:13:y:2018:i:5:p:632-646
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1421023
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