Present, Hard Labour − Postponed Consumption a New Perspective in Migration Studies

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Krystyna Romaniszyn

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This paper addresses the problem of contemporary economic migration discussed on the case of economic migration from Poland to Greece. In particular it examines the usefulness and importance of emerging anthropological and sociological perspectives on consumption for the successful explanation of the phenomenon under discussion. The paper is based on ethnographic data collected during fieldwork carried out by the author in Greece in the autumn of1993.

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