100/158 ANNA KORDASIEWICZ PRZEMYSŁAW SADURA Migrations, engagement and integration of Poles in the UK and in London Borough of Lewisham - research and data review within the Londoner-Pole-Citizen Project May 2017 1 www.migracje.uw.edu.pl Anna Kordasiewicz, Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw,
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[email protected] 2 Abstract This paper presents the results of desk research on Poles in London and the United Kingdom, as well as a statistical portrait of Poles living in the London Borough of Lewisham. The data and literature review were part of the ‘Londoner Pole Citizen. National identity as a tool to stimulate civic participation of the Polish youth living abroad’ action research project, carried out by the partnership led by the Centre of Migration Research Foundation, Poland, and including Centre for Community Engagement Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London (CCER); Lewisham Borough Council (Young Mayor Office); and Lewisham Polish Centre (LPC). The aim of the desk research behind this paper was to delineate a wider context in which the project was embedded which helped us to develop our research design, and also facilitated explanation with the aid of available analytical concepts. We included the state-of- the-art analysis on the topics such as migration, ethnicity, integration, diversity and civic participation in the UK. A special focus was on youth and the situation of young Poles in the borough. The idea was to depict the general trends and see the uniqueness of the studied locality against this background.