Migracje do korzeni. Wybory tożsamościowe Polaków ze Wschodu na studiach w kraju przodków
Roots migration. Identity choices of the Poles from the post-soviets states studying in the ancestral country

Author(s): Marcin Gońda
Subject(s): Sociology, Migration Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: migration;roots migration;return migration;educational migration;diaspora;Poland;post-Soviet states;biography
Summary/Abstract: Poland, having been a sending migration country for decades, is recently transforming into an immigration country. Among immigrants there is also a large youth group of Polish origin from the post-Soviet states who enrol at Polish universities. This autobiographical narrative interviews-based study attempts to apply the “roots migration” concept to the young Polish diaspora members’ educational mobility patterns. It reconstructs biographical implications of their migration to their ancestral homeland. It also analyses the impact of “roots migration” on the transformation of the students’ collective identity and sense of national belonging.

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