Discourses of a 'normal life' among post-accession migrants from Poland to Britain

Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union: After 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 87-105

  Galasińska, Aleksandra ^a   Kozłowska, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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