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The aim of the article is to look at the thoughts of one of the most prominent Polish sociologists - Florian Znaniecki - and to ask the question to what extent they may be useful for present-day social and migration studies. The hypothesis furthered is that migration literature should go beyond the seminal book on Polish peasants in America by Znaniecki and Thomas and focus more on the Polish sociologist’s early thoughts. The article emphasizes the importance of cultural anthropology and culturalism not only in migration studies but also in a broad range of social studies, including the assessment of post-communist transition.
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Focus Group Interviews (FGI) is a qualitative research method, that has been applied mainly in the field of marketing in Poland. Recently the advantages of this method have been also taken into consideration by social researchers including analysts of social policy. The article contains a description of FGI method and a short review of experiences with FGI gained by selected social research centres. The main part of the article concerns a research of the Institute of Social Policy of the Warsaw University. The goal of the article was firstly a presentation of the method in the light of practical experience (including some technical details) and secondly - wider popularization of application of FGI in the field of social policy studies. Presented examples of research regarded mainly such fields as migration (situation of immigrants in Poland as a subject of the research conducted among immigrants) and related questions. Actually the article is based on research conducted among quite difficult target group (type of respondents) and the type of the research group seemed to make a test of potential advantages and disadvantages of FGI more severe. Presented concepts and experiences with FGI as the method of migrations' research may be also applied in other research fields of social policy.
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The article attempts to summarize the methods, approaches and analytical framework used in the discipline of migration studies and political science. The main thesis developed in the text refers to the great potential of political analysis which is unused by migration researchers in Poland. The main questions put in the article are as follows: what issues related to migration processes should be a subject of special interest of political scientists in Poland?What approaches and research methods used in modern political analysis seem to be the most promising in the migration studies? What new trends and fields evolve which combine both disciplines of migration studies and political sciences? The article portraits the potential of modern political analysis in migration studies and formulates the postulate of continuous intentional interdisciplinary approach.
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The article examines autoethnography (as a form of methodological nationalism), a conceptual tendency that is helpful in the process of the construction of a multi-sited research field, (multi-sited ethnography), at two levels: spatial and temporal. I maintain that this type of data, (migration researcher's experience and history of migration of the family and local community), allows a better understanding of the nature of migration, which is understood as a process of long duration. More importantly, today's migrants perceive the migration of a hundred years ago, as well as the present, precisely as transmigration, and not as emigration or immigration.
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