Elżbieta M. Goździak reports on current and forthcoming publications
Our field research continues, but we have started publishing our findings. So far, we have had three articles accepted for publication.
Navigating and negotiating borders in primary and secondary education. Ukrainian children in Polish schools, co-authored by Elżbieta M. Goździak and Anzhela Popyk will be published in September 2024 in Human Organization, the flagship journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). The authors look at education as a bordering practice and ask how borders affect both access to formal education and integration within schools and in the wider Polish society.
Heritage language preservation among migrant children in Poznań and Wrocław: The emic and etic perspective, co-authored by Larysa Sugay and Elżbieta M. Goździak will be published also in September 2024 in Glottodidactica, an international journal of applied linguistics.
Children in migrant families are often torn between maintaining their heritage language and acquiring fluency in the language of the country where they reside. Knowledge of the majority language helps them succeed in school and find meaningful employment while the ability to speak heritage language facilitates communication within their families. The authors ask who is responsible for the children’s facility with either or both languages and analyze ways of integration and exclusion of migrant children vis-à-vis the language/s they choose to speak. The empirical data come from ethnographic research with migrant children and their families, teachers, and teachers’ intercultural assistants conducted in Poznań and Wrocław.
Zróżnicowanie doświadczeń rodzicielskich w grupie migrantów (Diversity of migrant parents' experiences), authored by Wiktoria Moritz-Leśniak has been published in Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, a journal published by several faculties of the Adam Mickiewicz University. You can read it here. In this article, the author reviews research related to families having migration experience, with particular focus on parental experience. The topic is presented from three perspectives: anthropology, sociology, and psychology, each highlighting different elements of these experiences. The article attempts to systematize research conducted by Polish researchers and theories related to specific aspects of migrant parents’ experience.
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