Post-Socialist Mobility Cultures
Post-Socialist Mobility Cultures

Summary/Abstract: The concept of migration culture is sometimes used to suggest that migration became normalised inparticular sending locations. It is helpful however to explore the cultural context of migration more thoroughly,investigating norms and beliefs about how to ‘do’ migration. I analyse why cultures change, and how this links tobroader changes in society. In some respects post-2014 Ukrainian migration to Poland and, for example, Polishmigration pre-2004 are strikingly similar, for example regarding informal networks, and migration to financechildren’s higher education. To some extent Ukrainian migration can be labelled ‘post-socialist.’ I argue howeverthat it is also shaped by the specific 21st century context, such as enhanced opportunities for communicationbetween migrants and potential migrants on social media and in receiving countries, as well as Ukrainians’encounters in Poland with Polish return migrants. Hence Ukrainian mobility discourses and practices have tobe studied transnationally, not just locally.

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