Migratory Readiness and Experiences of Mobility in Polish Emerging Adults
Migratory Readiness and Experiences of Mobility in Polish Emerging Adults

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on a relatively under-researched group of emerging adults. The main goal was to see whether gendered patterns, inherited cultural capital, economic situation and domicile specifics - as well as available mobility strategies reproduced in internationally mobile families and mobile peer networks - correlate with the current and future mobility of emerging adults. The survey was based on a random sample of 302 Poles aged between 18 and 29. The level of migratory readiness and mobility experiences is higher than in older cohorts. The logistic regression models show that migratory readiness diminishes with age and increases with a higher level of inherited cultural capital and in respondents who socialise in transnational families. Respondents from internationally mobile families were also more mobile. Interestingly, while gender is not associated with migratory readiness, it correlates with past mobility, with a higher level of mobility among males. The transition to adulthood, requiring entering new social roles, reduces the readiness but not the actual mobility. The only factor associated with both migratory readiness and past mobility was socialisation in internationally mobile families. This underlines the role of reproduction of the migratory culture.

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