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This chapter explores the life of ‘survival migrants’ after migration. The chapter focuses on the sociological understanding of the behavioural patterns of migrants implementing survival life strategy after migration—the outcomes in terms of dead-end and patchwork careers, class mobility, the peculiarities of their adaptation and the associated personal changes in their national identities, emotions and professions (labour market outcomes). This chapter also examines the future plans common to the group of ‘survival migrants’ that explain the continuity of the survival life strategy after migration.
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Oleinikova, O. (2020). ‘Survival Migrants’: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Life Strategies of Migrants from Crisis Regimes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39839-2_6
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