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The Vectors of Polish Migration in the World

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Chodubski A.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

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2012

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vol. 41

22-37

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The migrations of population are considered to be one of fundamental values in the life of cultures and civilisations . They are regarded as a force that generates social and economic progress, political aspirations, a “school” of attitudes, behaviour, tolerance, entrepreneurship, criticism. At the same time it is pointed out that they should not be a spontaneous phenomena and process. It is essential to prepare oneself for functioning in an immigration reality, for various barriers reveal themselves in it and are overcome by immigrants only with effort. The psychological factor is important in this respect. A number of people encounter difficulties to adapt to a new cultural reality because of their personality (e.g. because of neuroticism, distrust towards the outside world, introvertism).

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‘It Was a Whirlwind. A Lot of People Made a Lot of Money’: The Role of Agencies in Facilitating Migration from Poland into the UK between 2004 and 2008

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Jones K.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2014

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vol. 3

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issue 2

105-125

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The period after May 2004 – when Poland acceded to the European Union – until the onset of the recession in the UK in late 2007 saw a multitude of British employment agencies bringing migrant workers from Poland and placing them in temporary employment in the food industry, in construction, in social care, and in jobs in logistics and transport. Up to one half of the migrants who arrived in the UK after 2004 found work through an agency. As they arrived, a growing number of media and NGO reports highlighted both the exploitative living and working conditions in which many Polish workers found themselves and the role of agencies in this. Yet, the specific role of agencies as intermediaries between employers and workers has been comparatively neglected within the wealth of scholarly literature that analyses post-2004 East–West migration. This article documents how and why agencies recruited Polish workers into the UK labour market after May 2004. It argues that recruiting from Poland was a ‘market-making’ strategy for agencies, specifically linked to resolving a temporary crisis in finding a sufficient supply of workers willing to work in temporary agency jobs for low wages and in poor working conditions. The success of this new competitive strategy for agencies rested on: 1) marketing Polish nationals to employers as ideal-type ‘flexible’ workers, and 2) how quickly and easily they could move recruits from Poland into the workplace in the UK. This research contributes to an emerging body of work that analyses the competitive behaviour of agencies and the low-wage markets in which they are embedded, and to an also emerging body of literature exploring the role of migration intermediaries within Europe and internationally.

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The Labour Market Mobility of Polish Migrants: A Comparative Study of Three Regions in South Wales, UK

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Knight J., Lever J., Thompson A.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2014

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vol. 3

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issue 2

61-78

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Since Polish migrants began entering the UK labour market in the post-accession period, there has been a significant amount of case study research focusing on the impact of this large migrant group on the UK economy. However, ten years after enlargement, there is still insufficient information regarding the labour market mobility of Polish migrants residing in the UK for the longer term. The available research on this topic is largely concentrated in urban settings such as London or Birmingham, and does not necessarily capture the same patterns of labour market mobility as in non-urban settings. Using qualitative data collected in three case study locations – urban, semi-urban and rural – in the South Wales region from 2008–2012, this article has two main aims. First, given the proximity of the case study locations, the article highlights the diversity of the Polish migrant characteristics through the samples used. Second, using trajectories created from the data, this article compares the variations among the labour market movements of the Polish migrants in each sample to determine what characteristics influence labour market ascent. Through this comparative trajectory analysis, the findings from this article point to the relative English language competency of migrants as the primary catalyst for progression in the Welsh labour market across all three case study regions. The secondary catalyst, which is intertwined with the first, is the composition of the migrants’ social networks, which enable, or in some cases disable, labour market progression. These findings have significant implications in the national and in the supranational policy sphere regarding the employment of migrants as well as their potential for cultural integration in the future.

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Theorizing Polish migration across Europe: perspectives, concepts, and methodologies

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M. Goździak E., Pawlak M.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2016

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issue 48

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Theorizing Polish migration across Europe: perspectives, concepts, and methodologiesWith the focus on the post-2004 mobility of Polish citizens, in this article we discuss two interrelated questions; namely, what are the most productive ways to theorize contemporary Polish migration, and what are the most fruitful methodologies aimed at understanding Polish migration and Poles on the move? In the first part of this article we unpack three interrelated theoretical frameworks: ‘liquid migration’, ‘regimes of mobility,’ and ‘transnationalism’. The methodological discussion in the second part of the article focuses mainly on outlining and contextualizing the most common approaches to migration phenomena. By critically introducing quantitative and qualitative methodologies, we explore and indicate the advantages of the ethnographic perspective and the merits and predicaments of research engagement in multiple sites. Polskie migracje w Europie: perspektywy, koncepcje, metodologieZ naciskiem na mobilność obywateli polskich po przyłączeniu Polski do Unii Europejskiej w 2004 roku, w niniejszym artykule staramy się odpowiedzieć na dwa powiązane ze sobą pytania: jakie są najbardziej wydajne sposoby teoretyzowania współczesnej migracji polskiej oraz jakie są najbardziej owocne metody badawcze mające na celu zrozumienie polskiej migracji po akcesji do UE? W pierwszej części artykułu przedstawiamy więc trzy powiązane ze sobą koncepcje teoretyczne: „płynna migracja”, „reżimy mobilności” oraz transnarodowość. Dyskusja metodologiczna w drugiej części artykułu skupia się natomiast głównie na przedstawieniu najczęściej stosowanej metodyki i metodologii w badaniach zjawisk migracyjnych. Wprowadzając krytyczną perspektywę na temat ilościowych i jakościowych metod badawczych, staramy się wskazać wartość poznawczą perspektywy etnograficznej oraz wady i zalety etnograficznego zaangażowania badawczego w wielu miejscach.

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‘I Don’t Want This Town to Change’: Resistance, Bifocality and the Infra-Politics of Social Remittances

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Garapich M. P.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2016

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vol. 5

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issue 2

155-166

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The process of social remitting is complex and multilayered, and involves numerous social actors that at each stage face several choices. By definition, the process of socially remitting ideas, codes of behaviour and practices starts with the migrants themselves and their social context in the destination country. This paper focuses on the as yet unexplored issue of resistance performed and articulated by migrants confronted with potential change influenced by social remittances and the generalised process of diffusion. Faithful to the understanding of social remittances as ultimately a process where individual agency is the crucial determinant, the article follows the ideas, practices and values travelling across the transnational social field between Britain and various localities in Poland. Resistance to change and new ways of doing things is a continuous dialogical process within one culture’s power field, which is understood here in anthropological terms as a porous, open-ended field of competing meanings and discourses. Notions of bifocality, infra-politics of power relations and resistance are an important aspect of remittances and their reinterpretations, and resistance to social remittances by migrants, both in their destinations and in their communities of origin, is a crucial component of the whole process without which our understanding of remittances is incomplete.

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Parental Capital and Strategies for School Choice Making: Polish Parents in England and Scotland

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Trevena P., McGhee D., Heath S.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2016

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vol. 5

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issue 1

71-92

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Based on a study of Polish migrants living in England and Scotland, this paper explores how Polish families who have decided to bring up their children in the UK make initial school choices. The Polish parents taking part in our study generally had low levels of social and cultural capital (Bourdieu 1986) upon arrival in the UK: they had limited networks (predominantly bonding capital) (Putnam 2000) and a poor command of English, and lacked basic knowledge of the British education system. Meanwhile, this is a highly complex system, very much different from the Polish one; moreover, school choice plays a much more important role within the UK system, especially at the level of secondary education. We found that while some parents acted as ‘disconnected choosers’ (Gewirtz, Ball, Bowe 1995) following the strategy they would use in Poland and simply enrolling their children in the nearest available school, others attempted to make an informed choice. In looking for schools, parents first and foremost turned to co-ethnic networks for advice and support; nevertheless, parents who attempted to make an informed choice typically lacked ‘insider knowledge’ and often held misconceptions about the British education system. The one feature of the system Polish parents were very much aware of, however, was the existence of Catholic schools; therefore, religious beliefs played a key role in school choice among Polish parents (with some seeking and others avoiding Catholic schools). The ‘active choosers’ also made choices based on first impressions and personal beliefs about what was best for their child (e.g. in terms of ethnic composition of the school) or allowed their children to make the choice. Parents of disabled children were most restricted in exercising school choice, as only certain schools cater for complex needs. All in all, the Polish parents in our sample faced similar barriers to BME (Black Minority Ethnic) parents in exercising school choice in the UK and, regardless of their own levels of education, their school selection strategies resembled those of the British working class rather than of the middle class. However, the risk of ‘bad’ initial school choice may be largely offset by a generally strong preference for Catholic schools and parents’ high educational ambitions for their children.

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The Ethnosurvey Revisited: New Migrations, New Methodologies?

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Kaczmarczyk P., Kaczmarczyk P.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2019

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vol. 8

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issue 2

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Migration and Fertility. Polish Migrant Families in Ireland and Non-Migrant Families in Poland: A Comparison of Fertility Plans and Behaviour

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Klimek Ł.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2017

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vol. 6

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issue 2

5-30

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This study analyses and compares the fertility behaviour and childbearing plans of Polish migrant families in Ireland and those of their counterparts – families in Poland. The study has a comparative and explanatory character and applies both quantitative and qualitative methods. The analysis is based on the author’s own data collected from an online survey of Polish family units in Ireland in 2014 and compared with secondary data on families in Poland retrieved from the 2011 Gender and Generation Survey (GGS). My research reveals fertility postponement and fewer families with children among migrant families; nonetheless, migrant parents have more children than their counterparts in Poland. The results highlight the significance of socio-economic and institutional contexts. The study also reveals a dichotomisation of fertility strategies within the migrant population, with distinct differences in the number of children, transition age to parenthood, and further fertility intentions between migrants who became parents in Poland and those who did so after the move. The results also provide insights into the childbearing motivations and fertility patterns of recent Polish migrants and contribute to the discussion of migrants’ fertility in general.

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Polish Migrants in Urban Space of Dublin

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Szmytkowska M.

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series

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2011

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vol. 16

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issue 16

139-152

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The end of Cold War in the late 1980s of the 20th century and the accession to EU in 2004 brought spectacular changes in Polish migrations during the last 20 years. The opening of borders in 1989 and labour markets for Poles in 2004 caused fundamental changes in the scale, intensity and directions of Polish migrations. This paper is an attempt to analyze the Polish wave of migration to Ireland, which is one of the three states that opened labour market for workers from the ‘new EU’ in 2004 without any restrictions. The special attention is paid to Dublin, where the presence of Polish immigrants is very visible both at the statistical level and within social and urban space.

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RETHINKING GENDER, RETHINKING MIGRATION: ‘They assume dirty kids means happy kids’. Polish female migrants on being a mother in Norway

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Odden G.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

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2016

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vol. 17(3)

35-49

EN

This article deals with how the Polish in Norway perceive and talk about motherhood ina migratory context. The changes such a context might imply in terms of a parenting style,defined as a set of attitudes that express the parents’ behavior towards the child, are the article’smain focus. The results presented are based on qualitative interviews conducted withtwelve Polish mothers in Norway. The empirical data shows that the mothers interviewedconsider the Polish parenting style as rather demanding and intrusive while the Norwegianparenting style is considered as rather responsive and neglecting. The article shows, however,that there is no absolute connection between rather stereotyped perceptions of the Norwegianand the Polish parenting styles, and the actual attitudes identified in the analysis of themothers’ narratives. Better economic opportunities are among the most important changesfor the mothers, which in turn influences their perceptions and practices of motherhood.Furthermore, the diversity in perceiving, talking about and performing motherhood acrossborders are stressed, highlighting that the changes in terms of parenting styles are to beseen, above all, in terms of structural opportunities and personal experiences.

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E-migracja 2.0. Internet jako przedmiot badań migracyjnych

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Leonowicz-Bukała I.

Komunikacja Społeczna. Czasopismo elektroniczne

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2013

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issue 3(7)

57-71

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Niniejszy artykuł poświęcony jest roli, jaką odgrywa Internet w życiu migrantów, a co za tym idzie, jakie aspekty tego zagadnienia mogą być przedmiotem badań migracyjnych. Autorka podejmuje problem zakresu wykorzystania sieci w życiu na emigracji pod kątem szczególnej sytuacji, w jakiej znajdują się migranci, szczegółowej analizie poddają media etniczne w sieci oraz portale dedykowane dla migrantów. Tekst oparto głównie o przykład polskiej społeczności w Wielkiej Brytanii, która po akcesji Polski do UE stała się głównym krajem docelowym polskich migracji, jednak wnioski zeń płynące można rozszerzyć na inne kraje, a także inne niż polska społeczności migrantów na świecie.

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This paper presents the role of the Internet in migrants’ lives and the issues in this area, which might be the subject of scientific research in migration studies. The author analyses the ways of using the Internet among migrants in specific situation they have found themselves in exile, especially using ethnic media, websites and social media. The conclusions are based mainly on the case of polish community in UK, which became the most important direction of polish migration flows after EU enlargement in 2004. These conclusions may be however expanded on other countries and other migrant communities all over the world.

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‘By Education I’m Catholic’. The Gender, Religion and Nationality Nexus in the Migration Experience of Polish Men to the UK

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Fiałkowska K., Fiałkowska K.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2020

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vol. 9

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issue 2

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Abuse or Underuse? Polish Migrants’ Narratives of (Not) Claiming Social Benefits in the UK in Times of Brexit

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Schweyher M., Odden G., Burrell K., Schweyher M., Odden G., Burrell K.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2019

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vol. 8

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issue 2

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PŁEĆ KULTUROWA W PRAKTYKACH MIGRACYJNYCH: ‘They assume dirty kids means happy kids’. Polish female migrants on being a mother in Norway

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Odden G.

Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica

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2016

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vol. 17(3)

35-49

PL

This article deals with how the Polish in Norway perceive and talk about motherhood ina migratory context. The changes such a context might imply in terms of a parenting style,defined as a set of attitudes that express the parents’ behavior towards the child, are the article’smain focus. The results presented are based on qualitative interviews conducted withtwelve Polish mothers in Norway. The empirical data shows that the mothers interviewedconsider the Polish parenting style as rather demanding and intrusive while the Norwegianparenting style is considered as rather responsive and neglecting. The article shows, however,that there is no absolute connection between rather stereotyped perceptions of the Norwegianand the Polish parenting styles, and the actual attitudes identified in the analysis of themothers’ narratives. Better economic opportunities are among the most important changesfor the mothers, which in turn influences their perceptions and practices of motherhood.Furthermore, the diversity in perceiving, talking about and performing motherhood acrossborders are stressed, highlighting that the changes in terms of parenting styles are to beseen, above all, in terms of structural opportunities and personal experiences.

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Past Migrations and Their Consequences from a Lifelong Perspective: Reflections of Polish 1980s Migrants

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Dziekońska M.

Zeszyty Naukowe KUL

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2022

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vol. 65

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issue 2

43-58

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In today’s dynamic world, migration is gaining more scope; it is more complex and analysed from many perspectives. One of those is provided by past migrations. In 2020, a study concerning Polish residents who migrated internationally in the 1980s was performed. Its results not only offer another perspective on the past migration experience but, above all, on its lifelong consequences. The financial needs satisfied at that time resulted in considerable improvement of migrants’ family’s living conditions and, in many cases, also contributed to better family’s financial standing later in life. However, in the whole life view, regardless of the financial assets gained, the migration, which was a threat to the family’s stability in many respects, was assessed as a mistake of the lifetime.

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W dzisiejszym dynamicznym świecie zjawisko migracji ma coraz większy zasięg, jest bardziej złożone i analizowane z wielu perspektyw. Jedną z nich są migracje dawne. W 2020 roku zostało przeprowadzone badanie wśród Polaków, którzy migrowali za granicę w latach osiemdziesiątych XX wieku. Jego wyniki określają nie tylko kolejne punkty widzenia na przeszłe doświadczenia migracyjne, ale przede wszystkim ich konsekwencje w perspektywie całego życia. Zaspokojone wówczas potrzeby finansowe spowodowały znaczną poprawę warunków życia rodzin migrantów, a w wielu przypadkach przyczyniły się również do poprawy ich sytuacji materialnej w późniejszym życiu. Jednak w perspektywie całego życia, niezależnie od korzyści finansowych, migracje te, okazując się zagrożeniem dla szeroko rozumianej stabilności rodziny, zostały ocenione jako życiowy błąd.

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

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Ólafs H., Wojtyńska A.

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej

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2016

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vol. 6

101-119

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.

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Wskazania dla duszpasterstwa Polaków poza granicami Polski

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NECEL W.

Prawo Kanoniczne

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2016

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vol. 59

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issue 4

83-95

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Wytyczne Konferencji Episkopatu Polski dotyczące Duszpasterstwa Emigracji Polskiej is a document approved at the 369th Plenary Sitting of the Conference that took place in Warsaw on 9-10June 2015. The necessity to develop Wytyczne had been recognized by Polish migration communities for a long time. Priests directly working for Poles in exile, together with Polish Council of Pastoral Care in Western Europe under the authority of the delegate of Polish Episcopal for Pastoral care of emigration, made efforts to develop general instructions for Polish-language ministry. Initiators and working committees stated that the document should take into consideration all Polish communities and their priests. Wytyczne is a document addressed to secular and monastic clergy, monks and nuns, who take care of Poles in exile’s spiritual well-being and to those who participate in taking care of Polish emigrants.

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Wytyczne Konferencji Episkopatu Polski dotyczące Duszpasterstwa Emigracji Polskiej są dokumentem, zatwierdzony podczas 369 Zebrania Plenarnego Konferencji , które odbyło się w Warszawie w dniach 9-10.06. 2015 roku. Konieczność wypracowania Wytycznych była dostrzegana przez środowiska polskiej emigracji od dłuższego czasu. Duszpasterze bezpośrednio posługujący Polakom na obczyźnie, wspólnie z Polską Radą Duszpasterstwa w Europie Zachodniej pod kierownictwem Delegata Komisji Episkopatu Polski ds. Duszpasterstwa Emigracyjnego, podjęli starania o opracowanie ogólnych wskazań dotyczących duszpasterstwa polskojęzycznego. Inicjatorzy i pracujące komisje uznały, że dokument winien dotyczyć wszystkich środowisk polonijnych oraz ich duszpasterzy. Z założenia Wytyczne dokument są skierowany do księży, diecezjalnych i zakonnych, siostry i braci zakonnych, którzy służą dobru chuchowemu Polaków na obczyźnie oraz do tych, którzy włączają się w swoich środowiskach w troskę o dobro polskich emigrantów.

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The Vectors of Polish Migration in the World

‘It Was a Whirlwind. A Lot of People Made a Lot of Money’: The Role of Agencies in Facilitating Migration from Poland into the UK between 2004 and 2008

The Labour Market Mobility of Polish Migrants: A Comparative Study of Three Regions in South Wales, UK

Theorizing Polish migration across Europe: perspectives, concepts, and methodologies

‘I Don’t Want This Town to Change’: Resistance, Bifocality and the Infra-Politics of Social Remittances

Parental Capital and Strategies for School Choice Making: Polish Parents in England and Scotland

The Ethnosurvey Revisited: New Migrations, New Methodologies?

Migration and Fertility. Polish Migrant Families in Ireland and Non-Migrant Families in Poland: A Comparison of Fertility Plans and Behaviour

Polish Migrants in Urban Space of Dublin

RETHINKING GENDER, RETHINKING MIGRATION: ‘They assume dirty kids means happy kids’. Polish female migrants on being a mother in Norway

E-migracja 2.0. Internet jako przedmiot badań migracyjnych

‘By Education I’m Catholic’. The Gender, Religion and Nationality Nexus in the Migration Experience of Polish Men to the UK

Abuse or Underuse? Polish Migrants’ Narratives of (Not) Claiming Social Benefits in the UK in Times of Brexit

PŁEĆ KULTUROWA W PRAKTYKACH MIGRACYJNYCH: ‘They assume dirty kids means happy kids’. Polish female migrants on being a mother in Norway

Past Migrations and Their Consequences from a Lifelong Perspective: Reflections of Polish 1980s Migrants

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

Wskazania dla duszpasterstwa Polaków poza granicami Polski