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Belinda BrownBelinda Brown has worked as a research fellow at University College and the Institute of Community Studies, both in London, and is currently researching the social implications of Polish immigration to Britain. She lived in Poland from 1991-96, and her book based on her masters degree there, The Private Revolution: Women in the Polish Underground Movement, is published by the Hera Trust (June 2003). Recent articlesBeing a migrant the Polish way Migration is process not event. For many Polish people in London, the decision to stay or return is not fixed but part of a collision of influences: work, love, chance, family, money. Bureaucracy may regulate their lives, and Poland’s entry to the European Union will simplify them, but the river of dreams between Suwalki and Streatham, Katowice to Kilburn finds its own course. |
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