The aim of the paper is to present selected aspects of integration (in the cultural sense) of the Arabic community in Poland in the context of Poland’s integration (migration) policy which Poland formally does not have at present. What Arabic and Polish respondents have to say about the integration process may be useful for the more efficient management of the immigration phenomenon.
The article presents the history and specifics of Polish travelers traveling to Arabian lands (and Arab travelers to Poland) in the context of benefits (and possible losses) for both societies. Intercultural contact is analysed – how mutual relations (as a result of travelling) and Polish-Arab relations favoured cultural transfer and what forms it took and also how journeys influenced the Arab image in Poland.
Refugee/immigrant crisis in Europe is connected mostly with Arab or Muslim minorities. Negative perceiving of those groups in Poland is often based on stereotypes, myths and exaggerated facts. In this paper was made an attempt to confront the image ofthe Arab community living in Poland, which is functioning among Poles with the own image of the group, reconstructed on the basis of interviews and surveys conducted with representatives of the Arab community and Poles in the research fi eld. Most frequently nrepeated myths about Arabs occurring among Polish respondents also was and the most popular stereotypes relating to the tested group. Myths and stereotypes have been confronted with the results of Author’s own research, which undermine their legitimacy.
Artykuł przedstawia genezę, ewolucję pojęcia rasizmu i mechanizmów mu pokrewnych oraz percepcji tych zjawisk we współczesnej Polsce na przykładzie diaspory arabskiej, której członkowie potencjalnie mogą się stać oraz często rzeczywiście stają się ofi arami rasizmu i zjawisk mu podobnych. W artykule zaprezentowano pojęcia: rasizm, dystans społeczny, uprzedzenia, dyskryminacja, stygmatyzacja, marginalizacja, wykluczenie, stereotypizacja „obcych”, ksenofobia oraz nietolerancja w aspekcie teorii socjologicznych. W tekście zaprezentowano również przykładowe wypowiedzi respondentów badań terenowych przeprowadzonych w dwunastu miastach Polski od maja 2013 do marca 2014 roku (członków arabskiej diaspory i Polaków) na tematy związane z postrzeganiem „obcych” i percepcją ww. zjawisk w Polsce.
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This paper presents the genesis and evolution of the concept of racism and related mechanisms and the perception of those occurrences in contemporary Poland with regard to the Arab Diaspora, whose members can potentially be its victims and in fact they oft en are the victims of racism and related occurrences. Issues as: racism, social distance, prejudices, discrimination, stigmatization, marginalization, exclusion, stereotypization of an “alien”, xenophobia and intolerance are also presented in the context of sociological theories. The paper includes the opinions of respondents of fi eldwork conducted in twelve cities in Poland between May 2013 and March 2014 (members of Arab Diaspora and Poles) regarding the subjects connected with perceiving „aliens” and the perception of above mentioned occurrences in Poland.
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