Reconstructing Identifications With the Place of Origin in Post-Migrant Communities – the Case of Lower Silesia, Seventy Years After Migration

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ID22307756
AuthorsJacek Kubera (0000-0003-1513-1639, Fakultet sociologije, Sveučilište Adama Mickiewicza, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume54
Issue1
Pages7-34
Publication date2024-04-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevija za sociologiju (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0350-154X • E-ISSN: 1846-7954
PublisherCroatian Sociological Association (PUBLISHER • HR)
DOI10.5613/rzs.54.1.1
OpenAlexW4400689677
LanguageEN
References cited5

As a result of the border shift after the Second World War, people belonging to different national, ethnic, and regional groups settled in Lower Silesia, although Poland was portrayed in propaganda as a mono-ethnic state until the political transformation in 1989. This article examines present types of identification related to the place of origin of the oldest inhabitants of Lower Silesia: persons who were resettled from present-day Belarus and Ukraine, re-emigrants from Bosnia and France, settlers from diverse regions of Central Poland, and deportees from Russia and Kazakhstan. The presence of these identifications in the contemporary public sphere is then discussed. The article’s results are based on computer-assisted qualitative analysis of in-depth, biographically oriented interviews. They show how the social reconstruction of identifications with the place of origin has become institutionalised and examine the treatment of selected once-Polish regional or migratory groups as separate ethnic groups in a multicultural society. The paper demonstrates the distinctiveness of settlers from Central Poland compared to other categories in terms of defining their ties with their place of origin and their visibility in public space

Croatian · Emigration · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Multiculturalism · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Central European Literary Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Urbanization and City Planning

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