<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Polish rural migrations are a permanent phenomenon with specific features. They are a temporary yet indefinite type of departure from the social and topographic ‘peripheries’ to similar ‘peripheries’ of the receiving country, a group rather than an individual process of nominating migrants, their mutual movement to a chosen country and staying in ethnic cliques ("ghettoes"), finally the lack of a clear innovative effect and even the stagnation and retraditionalism of the environment they return to. These phenomena were described in detail by Polish rural sociologists during the inter-war years and current research confirms the constancy of the pattern established at that time. The similar behaviour of migrants and social consequences of toing and froing to earn money suggest the constancy of their conditions (particularly the peripheral situation of Poland in Europe and the dual development of Polish society and economy).</p></abstract>

Polish rural migrations are a permanent phenomenon with specific features. They are a temporary yet indefinite type of departure from the social and topographic ‘peripheries’ to similar ‘peripheries’ of the receiving country, a group rather than an individual process of nominating migrants, their mutual movement to a chosen country and staying in ethnic cliques ("ghettoes"), finally the lack of a clear innovative effect and even the stagnation and retraditionalism of the environment they return to. These phenomena were described in detail by Polish rural sociologists during the inter-war years and current research confirms the constancy of the pattern established at that time. The similar behaviour of migrants and social consequences of toing and froing to earn money suggest the constancy of their conditions (particularly the peripheral situation of Poland in Europe and the dual development of Polish society and economy).

Polish Migrating - from Globetrotting to See-sawing

Eastern European Countryside

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Polish rural migrations are a permanent phenomenon with specific features. They are a temporary yet indefinite type of departure from the social and...

Polish Migrating - from Globetrotting to See-sawing

Publié en ligne: 24 janv. 2010

Pages: 5 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10130-009-0001-9

Mots clés
Polish migrating, the family-neighbourly pattern, the family-parish pattern, stagnation, re-traditionalism, costs of migrating

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Polish Migrating - from Globetrotting to See-sawing

Publié en ligne: 24 janv. 2010

Pages: 5 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10130-009-0001-9

Mots clésPolish migrating, the family-neighbourly pattern, the family-parish pattern, stagnation, re-traditionalism, costs of migrating

This content is open access.

Mots clés
Polish migrating, the family-neighbourly pattern, the family-parish pattern, stagnation, re-traditionalism, costs of migrating