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Digital Homeland: Polonia on the World Wide Web

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Głębocki Z.
Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne
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2012
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vol. 20
271-295
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For diasporic communities like Polonia, globally dispersed across space and time, the World Wide Web and electronically mediated forms of communication are ways of manifesting their presence and identity in the global context providing at the same time an anchor with the homeland. Tis article tracks the cyber-presence of Polonia on the World Wide Web and documents inreach sites focused on local communities and outreach sites geared at establishing links with the homeland and historical contexts. It also explores issues connectedwith marginalized Polonia communities (i.e. the digital underclass) which lack economic resources to fully participate in contemporary cyberculture.
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THE DIASPORA AND PREVENTION OF ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA

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Irobi E. G.
Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies
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2010
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issue 25
33-46
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Political development in Nigeria in the past 50 years have exposed the fragility of the multi-ethnic federation. At this age the country still lacks adequate strategy to resolve ethnic-religions conflicts threatening the unity of the country. This article attempts to highlight the particular interest of the diaspora and the role they could play in preventing inter-ethnic skirmishes. It argues that the Nigerian diasporas as a network of professionals abroad are capable of engaging the government in conflict transformation, that will create a harmonious entity. An environment also conducive for participatory democracy.
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Przestrzenne rozmieszczenie Polonii w Wielkiej Metropolii Chicagowskiej

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Ziółkowska-Weiss K.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2018
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vol. 44
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issue 1 (167)
49–68
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Amerykanie o polskich korzeniach stanowią jedną z najliczniejszych grup narodowościowych zarówno w samym mieście, jak i w Wielkiej Metropolii Chicagowskiej (zaraz po Meksykanach). Stawiając pytanie, ilu Amerykanów polskiego pochodzenia mieszka w Chicago lub na przedmieściach, na ogół nie znajduje się takich samych odpowiedzi. Dysproporcje biorą się stąd, że nie ma konkretnego kryterium, kogo można bądź należy zaliczyć do polskiej grupy narodowościowej, jak również stąd, że nie wszyscy biorą udział w ogólnym spisie ludności. Celem artykułu jest ukazanie rozmieszczenia przestrzennego Polonii zamieszkującej Wielką Metropolię Chicagowską w latach 1980, 1990, 2000 i 2010, oraz analiza zjawiska rozprzestrzeniania się Polonii poza granice miasta Chicago, do innych hrabstw. Analizie poddana została również koncentracja Polaków zamieszkujących poszczególne dzielnice miasta Chicago w roku 1980 i 2010 oraz omówienie zjawiska migrowania przez Polonię ze starych dzielnic śródmiejskich do bogatszych, dalej oddalonych od centrum.
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Americans with Polish roots constitute one of the largest ethnic groups, both in the city itself as well as in the Larger Chicago Metropolitan Area (just aft er Mexicans). When trying to answer the question of how many Americans of Polish origin live in Chicago or surrounding areas, the same answers are generally never found twice. Th e reason for such disproportions is that there is no particular criterion who can or should be included in the Polish ethnic group and not all people take part in the general population census as well. Th e objective of the article is to present the spatial distribution of the Polonia in the Larger Chicago Metropolitan Area in the following years: 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 as well as to analyse the phenomenon of the spreading of the Polonia beyond the boundaries of the city to other counties. Th e concentration of Poles living in specifi c districts of the city of Chicago in the years 1980 and 2010 as well as the discussion of the phenomenon of migration of the Polonia from Inner-city districts to richer ones located further from the centre are also the subject of analysis.
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Pierogi z fiżonem. Praktyki jedzeniowe i tożsamość Brazylijczyków polskiego pochodzenia w południowobrazylijskiej wsi

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Bielenin-Lenczowska K.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2018
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vol. 44
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issue 1 (167)
23–47
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Celem tego artykułu jest analiza codziennych i świątecznych praktyk jedzeniowych potomków imigrantów polskich w Brazylii w kontekście ich tożsamości zbiorowych i indywidualnych. Badania były prowadzone metodą obserwacji uczestniczącej, autorka prowadziła również wywiady formalne i nieformalne, a także obserwowała aktywność Brazylijczyków polskiego pochodzenia w internecie (Facebook, blogosfera). Autorka skupia uwagę przede wszystkim na jednym produkcie: pierogach, które są uważane za „typowe jedzenie” potomków Polaków. Pokazuje, jak pierogi, jako danie łatwe do przygotowania, pożywne i tanie, są reprodukowane w społeczności polonijnej w przestrzeni domowej i publicznej, stając się częścią programu kulturowego diaspory podczas różnego rodzaju świąt i festiwali. Argumentuje, że pierogi, podobnie jak inne produkty uważane za „typowe”, są podatne na patrymonializację, ponieważ stoją w centrum tożsamości diaspory. Jednocześnie proponuje wyjście poza perspektywę etniczną i narodową i pokazanie, że zwyczaje jedzeniowe stanowią element tożsamości wiejskiej, środkowo-europejskiej, wspólnej z potomkami Ukraińców czy emigrantów z Pomorza Zachodniego, związanej z podobnym trybem życia i sposobem gospodarowania.
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Th e purpose of this article is to analyze the daily and festive food practices of descendants of Polish immigrants in Brazil in the context of their collective and individual identities. Th e research was conducted by the participant observation method, the author also conducted formal and informal interviews, and also observed the activity of Brazilians of Polish origin on the Internet (Facebook, blogosphere). Th e author focuses primarily on one product: dumplings, which are considered “typical food” for descendants of Poles. She shows how dumplings, as an easy-to-prepare, nutritious and cheap dish, are reproduced in the Polish community in the public and private spaces, becoming part of the cultural diaspora program during various festivals. It argues that dumplings, like other products considered „typical”, are susceptible to patrimonialization because they are at the center of the identity of the diaspora. At the same time, it proposes to move beyond the ethnic and national perspectives and show that eating habits are part of the rural, central-European identity, shared with the descendants of Ukrainians and emigrants from Western Pomerania, related to a similar way of life and modes of farming.
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DIASPORA W DIASPORZE: UKRAIŃCY Z POLSKI W TORONTO. SZKIC Z ANTROPOLOGII PAMIĘCI

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Trzeszczyńska P.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2017
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vol. 43
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issue 1 (163)
133-148
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Artykuł przybliża zagadnienie antropologicznych badań nad diasporą i pamięcią (sytuując się na pograniczu diaspora studies i memory studies). Przedmi otem uwagi jest diaspora ukraińska w kanadyjskim Toronto, a szczególnie ta jej część, którą stanowią Ukraińcy urodzeni w Polsce, przybyli do Kanady w latach 80. Bazując na materiale etnograficznym, zebranym w latach 2014–2016, autorka zwraca uwagę na związek pamięci i migracji oraz wskazuje na pamięć jako fenomen wymagający w sytuacji migracji szczególnej uwagi badawczej. Jest to także czynnik różnicujący Ukraińców z Polski od reszty grup współtworzących diasporę ukraińską w Kanadzie.
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The paper presents anthropological research on the issue of diaspora and memory, placing itself on the border between diaspora studies and memory studies. The subject of concern is the Ukrainian diaspora in Toronto, Canada, particularly the group of Ukrainians who were born in Poland and who immigrated to Canada in the 1980s. Based on ethnographic data collected in the years 2014–2016, the author shows the relationship between memory and migration, and points to its complexity. The data shows that memory differentiates the community of Ukrainians from Poland from the other groups forming the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada.
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TRANSNATIONALISM, DIASPORA AND ISLAM AMONG THE TURKS

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Pirický G.
Asian and African Studies
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2007
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vol. 16
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issue 1
3 - 21
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This paper investigates transnationalism among the Turks as a multifaceted phenomenon that has been engendered by the interconnectivity in the modern world, mass education and the victorious rise of telecommunication technologies, cyberspace media as well as the global transportation systems. With loosening of boundaries between the countries from Germany and the United States as far as Central Asia, the Turks have entered into numerous transnational networks as the important actors. My focus here is on the transnational religious identity of Islam among the Turks, mainly in Germany and Central Asia, that manifests itself through both non-governmental movements and networks (apolitical as well as political, both accommodationist and extremist), and state-based organizations. The identity, that arises out of such a process can be influenced by ethnolinguistic transnationalism, nationalistic transnationalism or political aspirations, too.
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TERRITORIAL IDENTIFICATIONS OF THE GOTTSCHEE GERMANS: DIASPORA – HOMELAND RELATION

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Moric A.
Motus in verbo: časopis mladej vedeckej generácie
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2018
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vol. 7
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issue 1
7 – 21
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Based on the research carried out among Gottscheers (Gottschee Germans) living in the USA, Canada, Austria and Germany, the article presents the social and symbolic meaning of the places the Gottscheers identify with and that influence their life as emigrants. These places are: the old country – Gottschee (Kočevska region) and the places that are important for the (re)production of their traditions in their new countries. The article also describes the meaning of rituals, including pilgrimages to the old homeland and meetings in their new countries for strengthening their feeling of belonging to a group within the country of residence, and for the transnational connections between the Gottscheers from the mentioned countries and with the old homeland. The article concludes that the survival of the diaspora depends largely on its ability to maintain its culture and traditions through ritual practices at various locations outside the home country.
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NATIONAL LITERATURES AND DIASPORAS: TOWARDS A POLYCENTRIC CONCEPT OF CULTURE (Narodne literatury a diaspory: k polycentrickemu pojmu kultury)

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Cornis-Pope M.
World Literature Studies
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2010
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vol. 2 (19)
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issue 1
10-25
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The present article argues that the expansive movements of creativity through exile, transplantation, and participation in trans-national projects have played a defining role in East - Central European literature. The literary cultures of this area have often used their diasporic expansions to reaffirm but also problematise their national distinctiveness. The interplay between national and diasporic, local and global, has called into question any organic or totalizing concept of East - Central European literary and cultural evolution. The contours of this cultural region have remained variable, open to alternative mappings. Exiled writers play a significant role in this continuous redefinition. The cultural projects pursued by them were often hybrid, allowing for trans-national agendas, as in the case of Emil Cioran, Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, Imre Kertesz, and others who followed a trajectory of the cultural detours and repositioning. The problematisation of national and ethnic/local identity has gone even further in the work of 'hybrid' minority writers, especially when confronted with the drama of exile and uprooting. Consider the case of the recent Nobel-prize winner, Herta Muller. Muller's fiction, published after her emigration to Germany, represents the difficulties of life under both totalitarianism and the exilic condition, emphasizing the conflicting facets of her identity. Her work tries to reclaim a more inclusive, borderless notion of East - Central Europe, cutting across former Cold War divisions. While the late nineteenth-century East - Central European exiles sought a redeeming narrative that could reconnect their present to a mythic past, the Avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century broke radically with the past, deconstructing both Eastern and Western traditions. In addition to encouraging contributions from various cultural 'peripheries' (Russian formalism, Czech structuralism, Romanian Dadaism, Hungarian and Serbian futurism), the historical Avant-garde managed to redefine the centres of Western cultural influence, bringing Europe closer to the idea of a polycentric culture. The collaboration between transplanted and native writers is equally important in post-1989 East - Central Europe, as the literary cultures of this area are submitted to a process of critical re-examination and cross-cultural reconfiguration.
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(Post)communist homelessness? Identity and belonging in Dagmara Dominczyk’s The Lullaby of Polish Girls

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Caputa S.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2018
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vol. 44
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issue 4 (170)
45–58
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Dagmara Dominczyk’s The Lullaby of Polish Girls mirrors her own experience as a Polish émigré of the early 1980s and touches upon the myriad stages of exile. Similarly to other American writers of Polish descent (e.g. Leslie Pietrzyk, Karolina Waclawiak or Anthony Bukoski), the writer’s debut novel explores the problematic questions of immigrant’s assimilation, desire for acceptance or one’s ties to the home country. But above all, Grażyna Kozaczka notices that “[the literary work] offers an additional option opened to Polish American fiction writers”, because the main character of the book, Anna Baran, is able to embrace both: Polish and American culture and claims two homelands as her own. Whether the protagonist is completely free from immigrant-homelessness or not, seems to be a thought-provoking matter as it seems that Dominczyk’s protagonist is engrossed in the yearning desire to return to the country of her forefathers; i.e. to Poland in general and Kielce in particular. However, the city of her birth and simultaneously the place where she spent her summer holidays, which is aptly described by the author of the novel in the moment of transition (as communist Poland of the late 1980s alters into a democratic country) belongs to the sphere of her memory and a real return to the past time is not possible. Therefore, the aim of the present paper is to shed some light upon the issues of identity, questions of belonging and nostalgic allegiance in Dominczyk’s novel The Lullaby of Polish Girls.
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THE POSTWAR DIASPORA. SOME REMARKS ON THE DEPICTION OF SERBIAN AND CROATIAN EMIGRANTS IN RECENT LITERATURE (Powojenna diaspora. Kilka uwag o obrazie serbskiej i chorwackiej emigracji w najnowszej literaturze)

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Giergiel S.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2011
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issue 38
79-90
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The essay aims to show how modern literature of both Serbia and Croatia depicts the early south-Slavic emigration of the post-World War II period. Describing historical conditions before and during WW II, the author depicts Serbian and Croatian emigration groups which differ one from the other in their mental backgrounds. But the books analysed in the essay show that, when abroad, both Serbs and Croats present identical attitudes and are involved in the same rituals, exclusion and stigmatisation. The analysis is based on two texts: one written by Vladimir Tasic, a Serb emigrant to Canada, the other by Dasa Drndic, a Croatian woman of many years' emigrant experience. In their books the two authors describe members of both nations who form strongly consolidated groups abroad and exhibit nationalistic viewpoints. Both Tasic and Drndic are modern literary writers, open to novelty in art. Furthermore, they openly reject the nationally oriented state models which originated after the collapse of Yugoslavia. They also criticise representatives of the post-war emigration. The author of the essay thus concludes that, after years of silence about the post-war diaspora, the contemporary emigrant communities emerge in two contrasting ways in Serbian and Croatian literature and in scholarly discourse. One is represented by politically and aesthetically conservative artists and scholars, and has a clearly apologetic character. The other, represented by Drndic and Tasic, expresses a critical approach.
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Diaspora i emigracja: wymiary egzystencji. Listy z wygnania Egona Hostovskiego

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Car J.
Bohemistyka
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2012
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vol. 12
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issue 2
85-106
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In the following article I analyze the first book of the Jewish Czech writer Egon Hostovsky written in exile, entitled Letters from Exile. Based on the distinction between the categories of diaspora and emigration (exil) as presented by the American scholar Nico Israel in Outlandish: writing between exil and diaspora, I am attempting to show that in his book Hostovsky utilizes both types of discourse: the emigrational and the diasporic, the latter as part of his internalization of the „Jewish fate” experience. The analysis is also built upon the particular letter-writing formula used by Hostovsky, which, in my opinion, points to Martin Buber’s theory of dialogue.
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Čeští vystěhovalci na Kavkaze ve druhé polovině 19. a na začátku 20. století

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Krjučkov I. V., Pticyn A. N.
Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
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2012
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vol. 98
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issue 3-4
233-249
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The essay comments on the genesis of the Czech émigrés' emigration from the Habsburg Monarchy to the Caucasus Mountains, one of the main regions where they settled down. The author monitors individual waves of emigration, formation of the Czech diaspora and transformations of the Russian policy towards the immigrants. The Czech émigrés brought with them modern farming technologies and intensit farming methods that were gradually adopted by the local population. Entrepreneurs, who formed an important group, contributed to the development of local industry with beer brewing, meat processing or building industry. Czech teachers played an important role. Musicians represented a specific group especially in large tors such as Tiflis, Stavropol and Baku. The Czech colonizers gradually became Russian citizens, but many of them preferred to keep their Austrian nationality and return to their country after some time. A vast majority of them remained members of the Roman Catholic Church, but more and more of them gradually joined the Orthodox Church. The success of the Czech émigrés was based on their diligence and high level of literacy, which sharply contrasted with the level of the local population. The Czechs pursued a federative life and established compatriots' associations. A large Czech diaspora lived in the Caucasus Mountains in the early 20th century, but it became depleted after the revolution and the civil war.
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PASTORACE PŘÍTOMNOSTÍ V PROSTŘEDÍ POHANSTVÍ A NEVÍRY

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Opatrný M.
Studia theologica
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2013
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vol. 15
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issue 1
157–181
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This study focuses on the theological and sociological point of view of the current religious situation in the Czech Republic. Based on the understanding of the term diaspora by Rolf Zerfaß, the study also demonstrates the basic contour of the so-called pastoral of presence in the ambience of atheism, non-religiosity and religious indifferentism.
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NARODY A MIGRACJE. ESEJ Z SOCJOLOGII HISTORYCZNEJ

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Kula M.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2013
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vol. 39
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issue 2(148)
5-14
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All European societies have massively intermixed in the course of history. Migrations and wars were not unusual. The stability of the ethnic composition of specific groups is thus a myth. Nationalistic ideologies which present their countries as nation-states most often do not take into consideration the numerous “admixtures” which have come into existence due to migration. Similarly, the idea of cultural “purity” has no sense. Also the idea of an eternal national territory is senseless more often than not. There are nations with the predominance of emigration processes and there are nations with the predominance of immigration processes. There are also nations in diaspora and nations which are entirely composed of immigrants who recently arrived in a given place. The phenomenon of migration has great influence on the characteristics of the nation which it concerns, on its culture, and national consciousness. The perspective on migration processes was at times one of the fundamental elements of a nation’s self-identification.
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DESCENDANTS OF THE DRAGON: THE DRAGON AS A SYMBOL OF CHINESE NATIONAL IDENTITY

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Zhang Cziráková D.
Asian and African Studies
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2023
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vol. 32
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issue 1
60 - 82
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The dragon has a unique position in Chinese mythology and it used to be a symbol of the emperor. This article explores the Chinese attitude to the dragon as a mythical ancestor of all Chinese. It focuses on the popular song “Descendants of the Dragon” by the Taiwanese singer Hou Dejian and its influence on Chinese national identity. The song was created in 1978 and became popular. Later, the dragon became the symbol of Chinese people resident not only in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) but also Chinese people living in Taiwan as well as in the Chinese diaspora. The song appeared at the right time when the longing for the motherland by Chinese people living in Taiwan correlated with the political need of the PRC to find a common symbol. The dragon as an apolitical mythological creature has been adopted as a common ancestor for all Chinese people on the basis of its lyrics. It has been used in the PRC since 1988 to replace political narratives, reinforce the feeling of national identity and find features connecting all Chinese people around the world. A new version of the song shows the attitude of those who have been born and have grown up outside of China but still consider themselves the heirs of Chinese culture and traditions.
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MOBILNOŚĆ EDUKACYJNA W SYTUACJI MIGRACJI DO KORZENI: POLSKA DIASPORA NA STUDIACH W KRAJU PRZODKÓW

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Gońda M.
Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
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2017
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vol. 43
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issue 1 (163)
229-258
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Polska, kraj tradycyjnie emigracyjny, w ostatnim czasie doświadcza powolnej, acz stałej migracji powrotnej. Wśród powracających znaczną liczbę stanowią młode osoby polskiego pochodzenia z krajów byłego ZSRR, które podejmują studia w Polsce. Niniejszy artykuł, bazujący na danych empirycznych o charakterze narracyjnym, jest, po pierwsze, próbą zastosowania koncepcji „migracji do korzeni” do opisu mobilności edukacyjnej młodych członków polskiej diaspory ze Wschodu. Po drugie, odtwarza biograficzny wymiar ich migracji do kraju przodków. Po trzecie, artykuł analizuje wpływ migracji do korzeni na przemiany tożsamości zbiorowej i poczucie przynależności narodowej studentów.
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Poland, having been a sending migration country for decades, recently experiences slow albeit consistent return migration. There is a large group of youth of Polish origin from the former USSR states who enrol for higher studies in Poland. Firstly, this autobiographical narrative interviews-based study attempts to apply the “roots migration” concept to young Polish diaspora members’ educational mobility patterns. Secondly, it reconstructs biographical implications of the students’ migration to their ancestral homeland. Thirdly, the article analyses the impact of “roots migration” on the transformation of the students’ collective identity and sense of national belonging.
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Rola patriarchatu rabinicznego w późnym antyku

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Ciecieląg J.
Studia Europaea Gnesnensia
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2014
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issue 9
127-144
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The text focuses on the significant role of rabbinical patriarchate in Late Antiquity, in particular in the 4th and in the early 5th century. It discusses the main prerogatives of the patriarch, its legal and ideological foundations. Also, it addresses the relationships between the patriarchate and the Jewish population of Palestine and the Diaspora.  
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