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MIGRATION - THE OPPOSITE OF HOME (Migratsioon versus kodu: vaateid ühele uurimisprojektile)

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Pranka M.

Mäetagused

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2009

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vol. 43

85-104

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The article introduces the possibilities of using the biographical method for researching the processes of migration on the basis of analysing the materials of the research project Maja ('Home/House'). Migration, the movement of people from one location to another, farther or nearer, brings along the change of home. While one's home is the symbol of stability, migration can be described as being the opposite of stability. Oral history researchers from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia have continuously worked on the Maja project since its launch in 1995. They have repeatedly interviewed the residents of an apartment house in Riga and consulted their personal documents. The information collected in the course of the study deals with the period from the year 1936 (when the house was built) to the present day. The study approaches the life stories of the inhabitants as subjective social reconstructions of the past, which are interpreted in the context of the observed residential house and recent history of Latvia. The dynamics of historical conflicts and social processes that took place in the society can be traced in the history of the house. Upon the analogy of this house, migration processes can be identified and viewed in close-up. On the one hand, the house is characterised in this study as an actual property, material value and financial resource, and an important factor for securing material well-being. On the other hand, however, the regaining of and return to the house is seen as something that binds together the disrupted pieces of life and reemerges as the symbol of safety, stability, and the continuity of generations. The house is a spiritual value, an epitome of the past happiness, close people, and memories.

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'SOLIDARITY' SOCIAL MOVEMENT - A COLLECTIVE PROCESS IN INDIVIDUAL BIOGRAPHIES OF LÓDZ ACTIVISTS

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Kopycka K.

Studia Socjologiczne

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2006

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issue 4(183)

107-126

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The biographical experiences of Lódz 'Solidarity' activists make the core of the article. The analysis of narrative interviews with the social movement participants allowed for the establishment of characteristic sequence of events and ways of experiencing their engagement in 'Solidarity'. The interviews also delivered the framework for comparison of their life histories and creating a typology of experiences characteristic for the activists originating in both the working class - and intelligentsia - centered part of the movement. Presentation of the consecutive stages in the narrators' biographies as a structured process revealed correlations between the social movement dynamics and ways of experiencing own biographies by the activists.

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Belinci: "zapomenutá" osada na Balkáně, v níž se hovořilo česky

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Svoboda M.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2008

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vol. 95

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issue 2

145-162

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The Belinci is a small village located in north-eastern Bulgaria. This essay covers the 1930s and 1940s - the period when Czech-speaking Protestants lived there - and aims at describing the Czech-speaking settlement in the village from its beginning in the middle of the 1930s. At that time this group of people moved in because of land shortage in their former place of residency (Bulgarian village called Vojvodovo) and lived there up to the late 1940s when they left to resettle the Czechoslovak border regions after the expulsion of Sudeten Germans. The author doesn't approach the Czech-speaking settlement of the Belinci village in the traditional way and thus doesn't regard them as subjects of the Czech nation (this is why he doesn't call them 'Czechs'). The descendants of the first Czech settlers have lived outside The Lands of the Czech Crown for many generations and did not in any way participate in the process of building the modern Czech nation in the 19th century. He understands their collective identity as primarily religious: they were strict Protestants with a strong sense for religious ascetism and Protestant work ethics. The essay is based mainly on the biographical method in anthropology, namely narrative interviews.

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BIOGRAFICZNE KONSEKWENCJE MIĘDZYNARODOWEJ MOBILNOŚCI W DZIECIŃSTWIE: PRZYPADEK THIRD CULTURE KIDS

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Trąbka A.

Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny

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2013

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vol. 39

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issue 2(148)

51-70

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This article concernes Third Culture Kids (TCKs), i.e. persons, who due their parents’ work spent a significant period of their childhood or school years in a different country than that of their parents. Due to the fact that in today’s globalizing world more and more people experience working abroad and many of them are accompanied by their families, the issue of the consequences of such a mobile and multicultural childhood becomes extremely important. The author has conducted 53 biographical interviews with adult Third Culture Kids. The biographical consequences of moving in one’s childhood are analyzed in a few spheres: professional life, social relations, psychological problems, and identity construction. TCKs are most often from the families of diplomats, professionals working abroad on contracts, employees of international firms. The vast majority of them has tertiary education and chooses a career which gives independence, the possibility to travel and capitalize cultural competences, which one has acquired thanks to his or her upbringing. Unfortunately, such a lifestyle since childhood is associated with the risk of psychological (ranging from the lack of embeddedness to depression) and social (e.g. sense of alienation, difficulties in engaging in deeper relations) problems. Building a coherent and long-lasting identity is also a challenge for Third Culture Kids. The author describes means of dealing with the above-mentioned problems.

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Autobiografia Alice Salomon- struktury procesowe biografii a losy narodu niemieckiego

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Kolodziej-Durnas A.

Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej

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2010

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vol. 6

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issue 2

60-80

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In the article the issue of process structures in the autobiography of Alice Salomon and a relation between biographical and collective trajectory. Besides the introductory information on the pioneer of social work in Germany herself and her international career in organizations of women's movement in the article the analysis of process structures in her autobiography is presented together with theoretical inspirations, methodological remarks and data on the text. In contrast to the analysis of autobiographical utterances of Rudolph Hoess enclosed in three articles by M.Czyzewski and A.Rokuszewska-Pawelek, which to some extent constituted the pattern of construction of the plot, the analysis of Alice Salomon autobiography allows to notice the situation when the collective trajectory does not absorb individuals but makes them build their own identity by means of biographical projects despite experiencing suffering associated with the collective trajectory. By the comparison of R.Hoess and A.Salomon autobiographies an attempt was made to emphasize the complexity of the German nation's fate of the Nazi period.

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WYBÓR, KONTROLA I REFLEKSJA. KATEGORIA SPRAWSTWA W BADANIACH MIGRACYJNYCH

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Trąbka A.

Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny

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2016

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vol. 42

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issue 3 (161)

81-102

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Artykuł niniejszy poświęcony jest wykorzystaniu kategorii sprawstwa w badaniach migracyjnych. Przyjmuję w nim założenie sprawstwa w ramach struktury społecznej oraz dualizmu struktury i sprawstwa wywiedzione z koncepcji Margaret Archer. Wskazuję na różne sposoby rozumienia i przejawiania się strukturalnych uwarunkowań zarówno na poziomie makrospołecznym (polityka migracyjna, polityka edukacyjna), jak i na poziomie mezo- i mikrospołecznym (uwarunkowania lokalne, rodzinne) oraz intrapsychicznym, a także ukazuję próby uzyskania lub odzyskania sprawstwa przez uczestników badania. Koncentrując się na subiektywnym aspekcie sprawstwa, analizuję pod tym kątem biografie wielokrotnych migrantów. Wykorzystane w artykule wywiady biograficzne pochodzą z projektu badawczego poświęconego słabo znanej w polskiej literaturze kategorii migrantów, jaką są osoby migrujące w dzieciństwie ze swoimi rodzicami dyplomatami, pracownikami międzynarodowych korporacji czy specjalistami wyjeżdżającymi na zagraniczne kontrakty. Osoby te, określane w literaturze mianem Third Culture Kids, coraz częściej stają się przedmiotem zainteresowania badaczy migracji.

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This paper is focused on the use of the notion of “agency” in migration studies. I take the perspective of “agency in the frames of social structure” and of the dualism of agency and structure inspired by Margaret Archer’s theory. I indicate different ways of understanding structural conditions and their manifestations on the macro-, meso- and micro level, as well as in the intrapsychic dimension. I also analyse diverse ways ofgaining and keeping sense of agency in one’s life. Concentrating on the subjective aspect of agency I explore biographies of serial migrants. The narrative interviews analysed in this paper were conducted in the frames of a research project dedicated to Third Culture Kids, i.e. people who migrated in childhood and youth with their parents, who followed mobile careers. This category of migrants, rather unknown in Poland, attracts more and more interest on the part of researchers.

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