Types of family and Polishness of children leaving abroad Cover Image

Typ rodziny a polskość dzieci za granicą
Types of family and Polishness of children leaving abroad

Author(s): Ewa Lipińska
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Sociology, Sociolinguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Migration Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: types of family; socialization; emigration; immigration; language; Polishness

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at discussing the strategies of maintaining Polish traditions in different types of families leaving abroad: migration families, disconnected single-parent families, broken families, mixed families leaving in a country of one of the parents’ origin or a country foreign to both parents, as well as multinational patchwork families. In each type there are certain difficulties in transmitting the Polish language and culture, but they are caused by different reasons. The social status also determines the used code (a limited or developed one). It results in great language diversity among children living abroad and determines their attitudes towards Polishness.

  • Issue Year: 22/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-50
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish