New CPC article in Families, Relationships and Society

CPC research undertaken by Professor Derek McGhee, Professor Sue Heath, and Dr Paulina Trevena has published in the journal Families, Relationships and Society.

The article, entitled 'Competing obligations and the maintenance of physical co ' presence ' the impact of migration and structural constraints on post accession Polish families in the UK', focuses on individual case studies selected for the purpose of illuminating the experiences of post - accession Polish migrant ' family lives ' in the United Kingdom. The focus is on how the interviewees ' articulated the impact of particular structural constraints (in terms of education, pensions, childcare and employment) on their future plans to settle in the UK or return to Poland. However, the main focus of the article is the relationship between these structural constraints and the tensions associated with fulfilling competing familial obligations in the UK and in Poland.

Read the article in Families, Relationships and Society
(DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204674313X664914
Appeared or available online: 08 March 2013)

Posted 11/03/2013 14:25