Efekt państwa i dobrostan. Klimat społeczny w odczuciach polskich migrantów w Dublinie
State Effect and Well-being: Social Climate in Impressions of the Polish Migrants in Dublin

Summary/Abstract: The paper draws on an ethnographic fieldwork among the Polish migrants in Dublin who decided not to return to Poland in a predictable future. I describe the relation of a state effect and wellbeing as a sphere that can be perceived as the social climate by the transnational migrants. The imaginaries and retrospective rationalisations of experiences, feelings and memories connected to a quality of state functioning and a society’s openness / oppressiveness impressions create inter-connected space for comparisons of two realities known to the migrants who have left Poland for Ireland over a decade ago, on the eve of their economic self-responsibility, and who are currently justifying their choice to continue their living there.

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