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In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a ""mobilities perspective"" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data gathered among young adults of Polish heritage in Germany and Canada, Wieczorek conceptualizes three patterns of (im)mobility which illustrate the diversity of immigrants' geographical movements after their initial migration. She thus reveals the different social configurations promoting or hindering the development, maintenance or shifting of each pattern in migrants' biographical trajectories.

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Migration and (Im)mobility offers an engaging account of the dynamism of international migration.--Asad L. Asad, Stanford University American Journal of Sociology

"Migration and (Im)mobility offers an engaging account of the dynamism of international migration.--Asad L. Asad, Stanford University ""American Journal of Sociology """

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Anna Xymena Wieczorek obtained her PhD in sociology within the International Research Training Group ""Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces"" at the University of Trier. Her research project included several stays abroad at the collaborating Université de Montréal as well as in Toronto and Berlin for field activities. Her research interests are migration, mobility and transnational studies as well as cultural, diversity and gender studies.

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