‘It’s about mindset’. How do young migrants in Poland build their resilience?
‘It’s about mindset’. How do young migrants in Poland build their resilience?
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Winogrodzka, Dominika
Trąbka, Agnieszka
Pietrusińska, Marta Jadwiga
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2024
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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12
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50
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2858-2878
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1369-183X
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2023-12-03
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The aim of this article is to investigate how young migrants’ resilience manifests in different spheres of their lives. Adapting the Keck and Sakdapolrak's framework, we define resilience as being comprised of coping, adaptive and transformative capacities. While coping capacities are a post-crisis short-term response, adaptive and transformation capacities encompass more proactive and long-term planning. Drawing on interviews with young Third Country Nationals living in Poland, conducted within the framework of H2020 project MIMY, we analyse how the different types of resilience capacities intersect with different areas of integration. We also highlight that resilience is not only the ability to bounce back, but also the power to bounce forward, which implies the capacity to transform individual lives and their environments. Interestingly, in young migrants’ narratives their personal resources, such as a positive mindset, persistence etc. play a crucial role. While community resources (family support and social capital) were mentioned, structural opportunities were largely absent in their narratives on resilience. Therefore, we can talk about a process of (self-)responsibilization of migrants for integration, which relates to the neoliberal discourse on newcomers’ self-reliance.
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Young migrants
resilience
resilience capacities
well- being of migrants
integration
resilience
resilience capacities
well- being of migrants
integration
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MIMY: Empowerment through liquid integration of migrant youth in vulnerable conditions
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