EU post-accession Polish migrants trajectories and their settlement practices in Scotland

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EU post-accession Polish migrants trajectories and their settlement practices in Scotland Article No: CJMS1241137 Enclosures: 1) Query sheet 2) Article proofs Dear Author, 1. Please check these proofs carefully. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to check these and approve or amend them. A second proof is not normally provided. Taylor & Francis cannot be held responsible for uncorrected errors, even if introduced during the production process. Once your corrections have been added to the article, it will be considered ready for publication. Please limit changes at this stage to the correction of errors. You should not make trivial changes, improve prose style, add new material, or delete existing material at this stage. You may be charged if your corrections are excessive (we would not expect corrections to exceed 30 changes). For detailed guidance on how to check your proofs, please paste this address into a new browser window: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/production/checkingproofs.asp Your PDF proof file has been enabled so that you can comment on the proof directly using Adobe Acrobat. If you wish to do this, please save the file to your hard disk first. For further information on marking corrections using Acrobat, please paste this address into a new browser window: http:// journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/production/acrobat.asp 2. Please review the table of contributors below and confirm that the first and last names are structured correctly and that the authors are listed in the correct order of contribution. This check is to ensure that your name will appear correctly online and when the article is indexed.

Rescaling belonging in “Brexit Britain”: Spatial identities and practices of Polish nationals in Scotland after the U.K. Referendum on European Union membership

“…Although Polish migration to Scotland is not new, it has increased dramatically since Poland's accession to the EU in 2004. The drivers, patterns, and impacts of this significant wave of migration from Central and Eastern Europe have been widely discussed in a range of geographical locations (Lima, ; Flynn & Kay, ; Kay & Trevena, ; Pietka‐Nykaza & McGhee, ; Sime et al, ). Important research is emerging on the immediate impacts of the vote for Brexit on Central and Eastern European migrants (Lulle et al, ).…”

“…She disputes overly positive and linear framings of transnationalism to highlight the differential qualities of transnational practices and the simultaneous experiences of continuity and discontinuity. Many of these studies stress the relationality of transnationalism, integration, and settlement, seeing them as multiscalar, open‐ended, and incomplete (Bell & Erdal, ; Grzymała‐Kazłowska, ; McGhee et al, ; Pietka‐Nykaza & McGhee, ; Ryan, ). White () stresses that “transnational practices have varying forms and significance in different locations and amongst different occupational groups.” For instance, Kusek () has shown that Polish professionals in London, although highly “transnational,” also maintain strong national affiliations, and their global ambitions are mediated through local and national contexts and standards.…”

The migration intentions of young adults in Europe: A comparative, multilevel analysis

“…This has been given renewed urgency by the high and increasing levels of youth migration in Europe, following the 2008 economic crisis (Cairns, ; Van Mol, ). Debates about the likely levels of future migration have also been fuelled more recently by the 2016 Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom (UK) (Pietka‐Nykaza & McGhee, ), which took place against a background of antimigration political, media, and popular discourses, which emphasised perceived negative implications of the EU's freedom of movement provisions for national border controls. In general, there is more speculation than evidence on this contentious topic.…”

Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit

“…Post‐accession Polish migrants have often been theorised as transient, circular and meritocratic individuals who are generally more educated and economically adaptive than previous generations of Polish migrants (Drinwater et al, 2009; Engbersen & Snel, ). However, critical scholarship contests these characterisations, pointing to more “open‐ended” settlement strategies and practices (McGhee et al, ; Piętka‐Nykaza & McGhee, ) and highlighting the centrality of social relations, such as the family, to EU‐8 migrants in the UK (Moskal, ; Ryan, ; White, ). Gzrymala‐Kazlowska () argues that Polish nationals engage in “social anchoring” to achieve stability and security in the context of adaptation and settlement.…”

“…Research is emerging on Polish migration to Scotland, largely due to its very different political character and demographic needs (McGhee et al, 2012;Pie z tka-Nykaza & McGhee, 2016). The pace and volume of EU-8 migration has been felt in Scotland, but with slightly different results from the rest of the UK.…”