Icelandic chapter in the Polish book: a narrative perspective on Polish migration to Iceland

• Authors: Helga Ólafs , Anna Wojtyńska

Title variants

Icelandic chapter in the Polish book: a narrative perspective on Polish migration to Iceland

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The paper presents a narrative perspective on Polish migration to Iceland based on one example of a woman, called Irena. Her biography served for an anthropological analysis used in biographical approach in social sciences with the assumption that the story of one life of a particular person can give some general knowledge – in this case about migration patterns and experiences. The story of Irena presented in this article is also an interesting example of the narrative journalism, since the biography is presented like a non-fiction essay, written by a journalist who accompanied Irena for several months during her stay in Iceland and was actually a part of her migration experience.

Keywords

EN

Iceland; Poland; Polish migration; oral history; lifestory

PL

Islandia; Polska; polska migracja; oral history; historia życia; Islandia; Polska; polska migracja; oral history; historia życia

• Publisher: Ośrodek „Pamięć i Przyszłość”
• Journal: Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 101-119

Dates

published

2016-10-30

Contributors

author

Helga Ólafs

• Uniwersytet Islandzki, Islandia

author

Anna Wojtyńska

• Wydział Antropologii, Uniwersytet Islandzki, Islandia

Identifiers

DOI

10.26774/wrhm.151