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Earning emigration,unemployment and poverty. Family in the scope of social threats
Earning emigration,unemployment and poverty. Family in the scope of social threats

Author(s): Barbara Lulek
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Family and social welfare, Migration Studies
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: family; earning emigration; unemployment; social poverty; loneliness; initiative; social threats

Summary/Abstract: Family is considered a natural environment for family members. At the same time it is the most important educational environment where children learn behavioural rules and prepare to function in the society.Family is a community of people, a link between individual person and the society. An area of family functioning guarantees safety satisfies the needs and stimulates personal development. Nowadays, this space meets many threats, quite often leading to its dysfunction and sometimes even pathology. There are various reasons for these difficulties. They can be caused by complex social, economical, cultural and political changes. Conditionings lying in the necessity for family members to be found in the new circumstances of market economy may also be the reason. Thus we can often observe families immersing extremely in material welfare, consumerism in utter state, concentrating mainly on economical functioning of a family at the expense of dysfunction in other spheres. On the other hand, high rate of unemployment affecting family members, often an extreme poverty, very hard living conditions for many families, as well as earning emigration in significant scale cannot be unnoticed. That is why, deliberating earning emigration, unemployment and poverty in the context of considering these issues as a threat for modern families seems to be a relevant subject. Presented study attempts in pointing out threats which arise from family dysfunction in managing the labour market. This study concentrates on chosen aspects of earning emigration,unemploymentand poverty touching family members, and relates them to a basic family task, which is raising and educating children. Therefore this thesis reveals some reflections concerning difficulties appearing in families affected with one-member earning emigration, unemployment and poverty, and consequently touched by society marginalization.

  • Issue Year: 2/2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 109-125
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English