Persons with disabilities in light of the National Census of Population and Housing 2011 : selected aspects

This article aims to present the most important critical information gained about disabled persons in the National Census of Population and Housing 2011, referring not only to the number, types of disability, but the main socio-demographic characteristics of the disabled persons

Imigranti iz evropskih socijalističkih zemalja u SAD i Kanadi: socio-demografski aspekti

The author discusses the socio-demographic structure of immigration from East European socialist countries like Albania and Yugoslavia to the U.S.A. and Canada from 1941 till the middle of the eighties. A characteristic feature of these, including Albania and Yugoslavia, migrations, which are also called modern migrations, are changes in their directions, intensity, causes as well as the social structure of the immigrants. The analysis of this process distinguishes its five phases enclosed in five consecutive decades, i.e. 1941–1950; 1951–1960; 1961–1970; 1971–1980; the last phase which started in 1981 is not finished yet. The data presented show that in the period in question the immigrants from the European socialist countries constituted only 2.9% of the total number of immigrants to the U.S.A., while their proportion in the total number of immigrants to Canada was 6.6%. The proportion of immigrants from East Europe in the U.S.A. was ca. 2.5% of the total number of admissions in the years 1941–87, while in Canada – ca. 5.4%. In comparison with the decades 1961–70 and 1971–80 in the middle of the 80\u27s the proportion of immigrants from the examined countries in the U.S.A. and Canada increased. It is worth noting that the proportion of Poles among the emigrants from the East European countries in the U.S.A. and Canada is comparatively the highest, suggesting that Poles are the most mobile of all East European nations, including Yugoslavs.Autorica analizira sociodemografsku strukturu imigranata iz Istočne Evrope i dvije druge socijalističke zemlje: Jugoslavije i Albanije. Rasprava se odnosi na razdoblje od 1941. do sredine osamdesetih godina. Karakteristična crta ovih migracija koje se također zovu i modernim, ogledaju se u promjenama njihovih destinacija, intenziteta, uzroka, kao i socijalne strukture useljenika. Autorica razlikuje pet faza u procesu ovih migracija koje se odvijaju kroz pet uzastopnih dekada: 1941–1950; 1951–1960; 1961–1970; 1971–1980; te zadnja koja je započela 1981. i još nije završena. Prezentirani podaci pokazuju da u ovom zadnjem razdoblju imigranti iz istočnoevropskih socijalističkih zemalja čine samo 2,9% ukupnog useljeništva u SAD i 6,6% kanadskog useljeništva. Proporcija imigranata iz Istočne Evrope u SAD za cijelo razdoblje od 1941–1987. kretala se po stopi od oko 2,5% ukupnog prijema migranata u SAD i 5,4% u Kanadi. U usporedbi sa desetljećima 1961–1970 i 1971–1980, sredinom 80-tih istočnoevropski migracijski kontingent je nešto povećan u obje imigracijske zemlje. Na kraju se ističe da je relativno najveće učešće Poljaka u istočnoevropskim migracijskim tokovima u SAD i Kanadu i zaključuje da su oni najmobilniji od svih istočnoevropskih nacija, uključujući i Jugoslavene

Who are we? : cultural valence and children’s narratives of national identifications

The article provides a sociological analysis of national identities of Polish children growing up in Norway. The research results presented are unique in the sense that the portrayals of national identifications constructed in the process of migration are shown through direct experiences of children. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with children, observation in the research situation (children’s rooms) and Sentence Completion Method. Adopting Antonina Kłoskowska’s analytical framework of national identity and her terminology of the so called ‘cultural valence’ (adoption of culture), we argue that identities are rocessual and constructed, a result of the fact that mobility took place at a certain moment in time and in a specific geographical space. In addition, we see identities as conditioned by a plethora of identifiable objective and subjective reasons. The intensified mobility of children due to labour migrations of their parents leads to multiple challenges within the (re)constructions of children’s identities in their new place of settlement

Growing up multicultural : the experiences of children raised by Polish-Norwegian mixed couples in Norway

An increase in binational relationships in the contemporary world is generating a complex web of family, relational, educational, organizational, and identification practices. The intercultural marriage contract also often gives rise to tensions and conflicts stemming from cultural, social, religious and economic differences. In all certainty, the experiences and daily lives of children in such relationships deserve special attention, and, on the basis of the Transfam research project findings, this chapter strives to fill the gap. Sociological research into binational relationships and children raised in such family configurations is predominantly framed from the adult’s perspective. Here we try to reach into the core of identified issues and approach the experience of living in a binational family from the child’s perspective as well. The multicultural experience of growing up in Norway under the guidance of interethnic parents (Polish-Norwegian) is compared to the monocultural experience of children raised by intraethnic Polish-Polish couples. This article is based on interviews with children aged 6-13, observations registered during the course of those interviews (most commonly in children’s rooms), and the Sentence Completion Test