Book Reviews

Based on 124 interviews, Migrants as Agents of Change. Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union offers a cutting-edge contribution to the research on social and cultural remittances. Through multisited ethnographies, the authors unpack the role that human agency plays within the process of social remittances in three Polish towns: Sokolka, Pszczyna and Trzebnica. Special focus is dedicated to everyday interactions among migrants, stayers and returnees taken in a micro-scale. The main questions the book aims to answer are as follows: who does the social remitting and why? What effects do they bring in? Are migrants the agents of change? The main content of acquisition results to be norms of politeness, driving culture, attitudes toward minorities, diversity and informal aspects in the work place. This book benefits from the cooperation of researchers from different fields. Grabowska Izabela is professor of Social Sciences and Humanities at University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland; Michal P. Garapich is a social anthropologist whose main research interests relate to migration and multiculturalism; Ewa Jazwisnska is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University and Agnieszka Radziwinowiczowna is a social anthropologist, member of the Centre for Migration Research, Warsaw