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MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE USA - AN OUTLINE OF THE ISSUE

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Weres M.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2008

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issue 2(327)

233-250

EN

The article takes up the issue of contemporary Mexican migration to the United States of America. Some crucial information is supplied concerning the scale and dynamism as well as the historical and social context of this phenomenon. It also outlines the key problems connected with the application of adequate theoretical models that would facilitate the analysis of migration as such and other related processes like integration with the American society. The text is an introduction to the broad multi-aspect issue of the presence of Mexican immigrants in the USA, also in the context of other people of Latin American origin. .

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THE GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY OF THE SERF POPULATION IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY AS RECORDED IN THE SERF ROLLS

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Seligova M.

Historická demografie (Historical Demography)

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2004

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vol. 28

55-109

EN

A study of four localities in Horni Police in 1710-1725 confirmed that people most often migrated at the age of 20-35 years. People of that age left home most often for the purpose of marriage. Typical for people over 35 years of age was the tendency to remain in one place, and typical for people over 50 years of age was their elimination from the records of the serf rolls, almost exclusively as a result of their death. Children up to the age of 15 tended to move with their parents.

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JOB MIGRATIONS OF GREAT POLAND CITIZENS FOLLOWING POLAND'S ACCESSION TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

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Gorna-Kubacka A.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2008

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issue 2(327)

272-283

EN

The article describes the concept of migration, its types, scale and directions. It also gives an account of the discussions on the size of the migration of Poles, its results in demographic, economic and social terms in the scale of the whole country, as well as ways of monitoring it. This is followed by a presentation of the results of studies on the phenomenon of migration in Wielkopolska (Great Poland) conducted by the Regional Work Office, concerning the size of migration after Poland's accession to the EU and in 2007. The study also sheds light on the motivation and expectations of migrants. From the analyses it can be inferred that in the nearest future migration will remain on the current level, but after 5-6 years it should diminish depending on the state of the country's economy. The last part of the article presents the main conclusions of the study and recommended measures so as to reduce and rationalize migration and its consequences. .

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THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND SOCIAL MOBILITY OF MARRYING PARTNERS IN THE PARISH OF DOBROVICE FROM THE END OF THE 18TH CENTURY TO THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

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Holubova M.

Historická demografie (Historical Demography)

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2004

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vol. 28

111-155

EN

The majority of marriages that took place in the parish of Dobrovice were, endogamous. The proportion of marriages in which at least one of the marrying partners was not a member of the parish of Dobrovice considerably increased within the area of the entire parish. The increased mobility of marrying partners in the village was brought about by their absolution from labour obligations after 1848. The radius in kilometres from which marrying partners came was not of course very large, and the majority of marriages took place within 15 km of the area under observation. The results gathered indicate that mobility preceded marriage and may have been related to work mobility. At the end of the 18th century marrying partners from the middle strata predominated, over the course of the first half of the 19th century the frequency of marriages among the lower strata increased, especially among the landless. Throughout the period, however, the overall character of social homogamy within the area of the parish did not change.

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Postoje k imigrantům a dopadům migrace v evropských zemích

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Chaloupkova J., Salamounova P.

Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review

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2006

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vol. 42

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issue 1

57-80

EN

This article focuses on a comparison of attitudes towards migration in twenty European countries. It analyses data from the European Social Survey 2002. The first part of the article contains a summary of the available sources of data on migration and a brief outline of developments and the current state of migration in Europe. The second part looks at the question of whether attitudes towards immigrants are related to the numbers and structure of immigrants in a country and their economic situation. Three thematic areas are examined: 1) the host population's willingness to accept immigrants; 2) perceptions of the impact of immigration on the host country; 3) attitudes towards different forms of integration of immigrants. The findings indicate that Europeans are more willing to accept migrants that are of the same race (ethnic group) and from Europe than they are migrants of a different race (ethnic group) and from states outside Europe. The strongest unwillingness to accept people from other states and the strongest emphasis on the negative impact of immigration was observed in Greece and Hungary, while the strongest willingness to accept immigrants was found in Sweden and Switzerland and was connected with a more positive perception of the impact of immigration.

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Migracje Polaków po przystąpieniu do Unii Europejskiej

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Bobrowska A.

Colloquium Wydziału Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych AMW

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2013

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issue 2

49-64

EN

This publication is the work of a theoretical nature. The author focused on the causes and consequences of migration from Poland after 1 May 2004.The paper presents the rock migration, and the main features of contemporary Polish migration, the author also compares the Poles trips to Scandinavia and the UK.

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Migracja chłopów polskich z Królestwa Polskiego na Syberię po reformie agrarnej Piotra Stołypina

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Leończyk S.

Studia Europaea Gnesnensia

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2012

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issue 6

281-298

PL

The mass voluntary migration from Polish lands began in the second half of the 19th century. An important stage in the tsarist policy of settlement inSiberiawas the so-called agrarian reform according to the project of premier Pyotr Stolypin. From 1905 to 1914, 5580 peasants migrated from theprovinceofLublin, 1485 from theprovinceofChełm, and over 3000 from other provinces of the Kingdom. Compared with this number, the resettlement movement from the provinces on theVistula, that is territories ethnically Polish was utterly negligible and did not exceed 1% of all migrants. In the resettlement historiography the best known is the “migration rush from the Dąbrowskie Mining Region”. Among the causes for the “emigration rush” from the Region, apart from obvious stagnation in the coal industry and associated redundancies and deterioration of living conditions, the desire to possess one’s own plot of land is most frequently quoted, and most likely not without a reason. The outbreak of World War I arrested the resettlement behind the Ural. The movement continued until 1916. Before the October Revolution started, approximately 300,000 to 500,000 Poles were to be found inSiberia.

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'TAMING OF OTHERNESS' - HUMAN MIGRATION IN AN INTEGRATING EUROPE ('Oswajanie innosci - migranci w integrujacej sie Europie)

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Winiecka K.

Colloquium Wydziału Nauk Humanistycznych i Społecznych AMW

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2010

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issue 2

67-82

EN

This article presents migrant's situation in integration Europe in social - cultural context. It pays bigger attention on aspect of the multicultural and the category of 'otherness', and exactly on the interventions, which have to contribute to common, better functioning of groups from minority. It treats to the 'taming the otherness', that is different kind of processes, mechanisms and the workings which concern functioning in multicultural society, and they shape on different levels of political and social life. For example on level of working of European Union's power organs, governments of individual states, non - governmental organizations, and first of all in space of local community life. Those processes, mechanisms and workings have the target to approximate and understand 'the painting of Different' and his life style to the occupants of European Union, and as a consequence of this - better functioning the society of whole Commonwealth. The cultural factor is introduced as possessing the first-class meaning in general process of European integration.

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Wybrane fiskalne konsekwencje migracji zarobkowej oraz związanego z nią transferu dochodów (na przykładzie województwa opolskiego)

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Jończy R., Rokita-Poskart D.

Barometr Regionalny. Analizy i prognozy

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2012

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issue 2(28)

49-56

EN

In this paper the results of estimates on the fiscal impact of labor migration and remittances are presented for Opole Voivodship. For this purpose, on the one hand, an estimation was made of the amount of indirect taxes which affect the Polish budget by the spending of part of the income earned abroad by migrants from Opole Voivodship in Poland. On the other hand, an estimation was made of the losses for local governments, due to the non-payment of income tax in Poland by economic migrants from the Opole region. Although the estimates require a variety of assumptions and simplifications, it was possible to identify a range of losses incurred by the region due to migration.

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Janicki W., Kubik-Komar A.

Studia Demograficzne

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2007

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issue 1(151)

111-136

EN

The European Union countries have witnessed increasing importance of migration for years, while contribution of natural increase to population change has visibly diminished. This poses a great pressure on migration research. In particular, searching for migration determinants becomes more and more important. In the years 1986-1994, EU12 constituted a relatively stable group of countries, thus investigation of possible migration determinants for these countries could deliver promising results. Data published by Eurostat and data from national statistical institutes of individual countries, supplemented by estimates based on numerous theories and empirical evidence, constitute a basis for the analysis of migration determinants for NUTS 2 regions. Assuming that internal and international flows of migration are undertaken simultaneously, regression analysis is used to indentify the impact of carefully selected independent variables. The regression results show that economic variables, typical for migration studies, do not play an important role in determining migration, while general measures of the standard of living (number of cars per 1000 and household energy consumption), along with population density and long-term unemployment rate, explain net migrations at a satisfactory level. However, regressions run for selected countries allow for better explanation of net migration by variables considered. These results suggest that migration determinants vary between the EU12 countries and further research is needed, on factors affecting migration, in particular by referring to spatial and temporal integration of migration flows.

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MIGRATION AS AN ADVENTURE

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Jencova I.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

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2007

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vol. 55

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issue 4

457-463

EN

The central aim of the article is to explore, from the perspective of the Slovak migrants in London, how the sense of their presence in London and their absence in Slovakia is created in context of their life cycle.

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ALBANIAN MIGRATION INTO SLOVAKIA - HISTORY, SPECIFICITY AND RELATIONS

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Sipos M.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

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2004

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vol. 52

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issue 4

404-420

EN

The objective of this study is to present the information about history and process of Albanian migration into the area of Slovak Republic. Albanians are migrants, who are less known in Slovakia. In majority society they are known especially through their profession - as an ice-cream sellers, pizza restaurants holders, gold-smitheries holders, and, in negative sense, mainly through illegal criminal activities. In nowadays Slovakia there are approximately 3.000-4.000 Albanian immigrants (unofficial entry). In the past, there were three main periods, when the greatest number of Albanian migrants had come to Slovakia: a) in the times of the 1.Czechoslovak republic (between 1918-39), b) between the years 1968-70 (unstable situation after the intervention of Warsaw-pact soldieries to CSSR) and c) after 1989 (the end of communist regime). The homeland of Albanian migrants living in Slovakia are F.Y.R.O Macedonia and Kosovo. In the process of Albanian migration two moments are significant: a) Albanian migration has strong economic background, b) kinship relations with persons already living in Slovakia determine the direction of the Albanian migration. Inside the Albanian community, strong tendencies towards the preservation of their own cultural identity can be found . Adaptive tendencies towards the new social and cultural environment are connected mostly with economic cooperation with the members of majority society. Good skills of Slovakian language and formal acceptation of majority customs are characteristic examples. On the other hand, protective tendencies are strong in the sphere of family and social relations within the Albanian community. Patriarchal family model (extend family as a common economic unit with one regency and representative person - the head of the family) and Albanian traditional law system are the representatives of cultural difference. Specific social relations are relevant also in the process of Albanian migration. Strong orientation towards the family causes that many new migrants are in kinship relation with the persons who had come to this area 70 years ago. Members of Albanian community living in Slovakia are not concentrated upon one place, in one or few towns. They are living in dispersion at all area of Slovakia, in many towns and villages. This is the consequence of informal agreement, in the frame of which new member of community does not want to become the rival of another Albanian businessman.

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REPORTER'S HOME (Dom reportera)

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Nowacka B.

Anthropos?

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2011

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issue 16-17

201-216

EN

The Author has used the most famous polish philosopher's quotation, that it is a peculiar aspect of any sign of life - there are many forces, which are directed into a maintenance, into the keeping process of existing order or other things, which are standing in front of other sources. In our human being's world, these two energies are showed as durability need, security need, being in the well known place, novelty need, change need, curiosity need. These two inclinations have argued with themselves, but they are indispensable both, because of leading of our life. This quote constitutes a journey as a figure of human being's fate, especially it makes a stress and marks two oppositions: nomadic and colonization. Moreover, the next issue concerns on reporter profession as a specific kind of creativity, which is dictated by movement (mobility) and displacement. This creativity was called by Ryszard Kapuscinski, as literature by foot. Main thing is hidden in the middle word - nomadic - which concerns about permanent migratory, traveling around the world and looking for original discoveries, which can be transformed into very valuable record. Author has convinced, that presented record of everyday reporter's life, which wrote Ryszard Kapuscinski shows a special life image; he used an idea of surrealist stream of different associations, which are connected with surprising adjacent. From the next volume, author analyzes fundamental questions - is it possible, that reporter's life is devoid of rooting? Where it can makes its own universe? What consists axis mundi of its world and its omphalos? Or what makes a function in his life and home, as a place where one lives? Some answers gives the analyze of two the most famous polish reporters - Ryszard Kapuscinski and Melchior Wankowicz constitute two different ways of understanding home, as a place in which someone can learn values, cultivates tradition, this is a place which gives patriotic examples or home is a place which presents special kind of need, where rooting is possible. What is more important, these two different ways and treatment of home in Kapuscinski's and Wankowicz's creativity and life, there is one thing common - as the author has confirmed - intensive nomadic life in permanent mobility reminds a way back to home, as the act of special return.

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MOBILITY BETWEEN POLAND AND THE SOUTH CAUCASUS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF HISTORICAL TIES AND CURRENT POLICIES

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Jafarova K.

Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied

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2022

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vol. 25

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issue 1

-

EN

Poland has been facing increasing migration flows from the region of the South Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, which might be regarded as surprising since the countries are not geographically proximate; something which constitutes one of the factors for motivation to migrate in migration studies. That said, the overarching objective of this paper is to shed some light on the mobility between the South Caucasus and Poland and to attempt to demonstrate that the current increasing migration flows from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia to Poland can in no way be regarded as a coincidence. This is implemented on the nexus of two perspectives: 1) the historical background of the relationships between Poland and the countries in the South Caucasus accompanied by culturally, politically, and socially motivated mobility that might serve as a ground for continued flows between the two, and 2) the current migration flows from the South Caucasus to Poland in the light of existing policies based on some available, yet limited, data. As a result of the literature review, it becomes evident that mobility between Poland and the region of the South Caucasus goes back to the period before the Russian Empire ruled the region, driven mostly by trade exchanges, missionary visits, and political exiles.

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RURAL INTELLIGENTSIA - ITS ORIGINS AND MATERIAL SITUATION

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Wasielewski K.

Wieś i Rolnictwo

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2005

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issue 3(128)

117-130

EN

For a long time the rural community had not been able to ensure education to its own members and to create a sufficiently attractive offer for those of its few members who had managed to become well educated. This situation did not change even during the early period of People's Poland when masses of young people from rural areas were given a chance to raise their social status or in the later years when the children of peasants and workers were ensured privileges in access to university education by means of a system designed to eliminate significant inequalities in the educational chances of various social groups. It is not surprising then that throughout the post-war period (until the year 2000) the rural community had a negative migration balance and that young people constituted the category of the most frequently migrating inhabitants of the rural areas. According to the results of various analyses, such migrations resulted in the outflow of talented and active people who did not see any prospects for a better future in the countryside and could not accept the conditions prevailing there. In the result of these and many other processes the Polish rural community was in a deep crisis at the time of the change of the political and economic system in Poland. The rural community is generally considered to be a serious barrier hampering the transformation process. The need for changes in the rural areas does not evoke any serious reservations at present. These areas require the introduction of essential changes from without and from within, the latter being immanent changes that have its source in the local community itself. The changes from within are particularly important since they release in a natural way human capital hidden in the rural areas. However, to make this capital work people able to shoulder the process of the rural population's activation are needed. It seems that rural intelligentsia has a particularly great role to play in this respect. Who are the people forming this group? What is their place in the structure of the rural community? What does their material situation look like? What were the circumstances that made them settle in the countryside? Do they feel to be a part of the rural community? This paper represents an attempt at providing answers to these questions.

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