Trans-local Lives: Class, Gender and Rurality in post-2004 Migration between Ireland and Poland

This book explores the nature of post-2004 migration between Ireland and Poland from socio-cultural perspective. It is concerned with the lived experience of migration as encountered by the migrant cohort moving between two non-city locales in Ireland (Newcastle West, Co. Limerick) and Poland (Tczew, pomorskie voivodeship). Of particular concern are the classed and gendered nature of this migration and the impact of the relatively rural places between which the migrants move.The methodology adopted for the study entailed mobile ethnography, that is, ethnography carried out in and between the two locales concerned. The combination of research methods: interviews, observation and photography, enabled for the in-depth insight into the lives of participating Polish families and generation of rich and manifold data. The book is framed by two bodies of theory: theories of migration and the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu.