Mobility and Encounters with Difference: The Impact of Migrant Experience on the Circulation of Values and Attitudes
Journal: White Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
Year: 2014

European societies have recently witnessed unprecedented rise in mobility, particularly along the East-West axis.In this context, the ability of individual migrants to make sense of and live with difference becomes a key issue for contemporary Europe.In response, this PhD thesis investigates the consequences of migrant encounters with difference in terms of ethnicity, religion, class, sexuality, gender, age and disability.It explores how migration from a postcommunist to a postcolonial state sha