O (nie)przenikaniu się kultur w biografiach migrantów zarobkowych
On (Non-)permeability of Cultures in the Biographies of Economic Migrants

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the temporary migration when one contextually (does not) meets the culture, what is in turn visible in the migrants’ experiences. The consequences of (not) meeting the culture depend on occurrence and the strength of the mechanisms that anchor the migrants here and there. The aim of the article is to explain how the cultures interpenetrate in the context of economic migration. The temporality constitutes the central category and it is discussed in three contexts: (non) usage the language, (non) leisure time and (non) returning of the migrants. The paper is based on research data and is based on qualitative analysis of the interviews conducted in a research and artistic project “Opole Odysseys” carried out by the sociologists and artists of Opole University in 2013—2014.

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