The Centenary of the Polish Peasant in Europe and America through the Contemporary Concept of Social Remittances
The Centenary of the Polish Peasant in Europe and America through the Contemporary Concept of Social Remittances

Summary/Abstract: This article was motivated by the centenary (2018) of the seminal sociological monograph Polish Peasantin Europe and America by Thomas and Znaniecki (1918). It shows that classics can be not only ccasionallyreferenced but also read in-depth with the new contemporary concept of social remittances embedded in transnationalties. Reaching for the Polish Peasant in Europe and America aimed this analysis to revisit the precedingpassages of migration history and to revitalise the preliminary knowledge about human moves and social change.The article is a reminder and a positioner of Thomas and Znaniecki’s monograph in their contemporary migrationhistorical writings of Central Europe, not commonly referenced in international sociology. The methodologyof the qualitative content analysis with retrospective mapping the flow of information in the illustrative cases ofmigrant families applied in this article, helped to analyse resistance and changes of norms, values, practices andsocial capital affected by international migration and bundled as social remittances.

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