TRANSFORMACJE POSTAW WOBEC ARABÓW W SPOŁECZEŃSTWIE POLSKIM Z PERSPEKTYWY CZŁONKÓW SPOŁECZNOŚCI ARABSKIEJ I MUZUŁMAŃSKIEJ
TRANSFORMATIONS OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS ARABS IN THE POLISH SOCIETY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MEMBERS OF THE ARAB AND MUSLIM COMMUNITIES

Summary/Abstract: In spite of numerous studies exploring the attitudes of Polish society towards followers of Islam including Arabsor studies showing how Polish media shapes the image of Muslims and Islam, there are hardly any analysesassessing how these attitudes and images are perceived by the minority group. The purpose of this text is tofill this gap and analyse the perception of transformation of attitudes in contemporary Polish society towardsArabs from the perspective of members of the Arab and Muslim communities. The article’s analytical framework builds upon the conceptions problematizing a group sense of alienation and familiarity in the context ofhuman mobility and immobility. In particular, the text shows the usefulness of the concept of otherness andstrangeness developed by Ewa Nowicka in the late 1990s for the analysis of the transformation of attitudestowards Arabs and Muslims in Polish society in the last two decades

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