In a new JEMS paper, drawing on interviews with people whose #family members intended to #emigrate from communist Poland & Russia but have not fulfilled their plans, I explore family #stories on unrealised emigration experienced under emigration restrictions and their potential #intergenerational impacts. @sociology doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2346619 1/
I shed light on 1) the mechanisms that may underlie the potential influence of the experience over migration-related attitudes, norms, #aspirations of the non-migrants’ #descendants, including directly persuasive normatively loaded, migration-encouraging #narratives and neutral or migration-discouraging #stories though contributing to the perception of mobility as a social norm and leading to greater sensitivity to the subject, and ... 2/
... 2) factors influencing stories and their reception, including post-hoc rationalisation; childhood memories; compensatory mobility; contact with those who left; everyday times, individual lifetimes, and institutional times.