The article examines the relationship between past experience of involuntary immobility in a family and the current migration intentions of its members. While family migration experience has been shown to be positively related to migration intentions, the role of past unrealised migration intentions in a family is understudied. Using the case of the former communist bloc, we focus on the migration intentions of people whose family members’ mobility aspirations were stifled by the restrictive political regime. Drawing on data from the Life in Transition III Survey, we show that close relatives of people who had been prohibited from going abroad under communist rule are more likely to report migration intentions compared with people without such family experience. We explain these findings with the intergenerational transmission of mobility aspirations.
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Foreigners – Varsovians. An overview of actors, actions, and challenges in the Warsaw integration landscape
Warsaw has become a significant migration destination. In this issue, members of the Laboratory of Urban and Regional Migration Policies at CMR UW, in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, look at the integration activities and challenges in the Polish capital.