Socio-Legal Integration

This book examines how contemporary migrants form and transform their involvement with the law in their host countries and which factors influence this relationship. It suggests a more comprehensive insight into the socio-legal integration of migrants by analysing the interplay between the new legal environment and migrants' existing culturally-derived values, attitudes, behaviour and social expectations towards law and law enforcement. Acknowledging the superdiversity of migration as a global issue, the book uses the case study of Polish post-2004 EU Enlargement migrants to examine values and attitudes to the rules that govern their work and residence in the UK and to the legal system in general. With wider international relevance than just Poland and the UK, this book makes a case for the meaningful employment of legal culture in socio-legal integration research and suggests far-reaching consequences for host countries and their immigrant communities.

Dr. Agnieszka Kubal works at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford. She is also Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. She currently pursues research projects in the areas of European migration systems, migrants' legal incorporation and comparative legal culture. She teaches political sociology and socio-legal approaches to migration. She is a member of Migration Law network.