Rodzina a skutki migracji zagranicznych

Abstract

Poland is a typical example of country where society has taken part of external migration processes, at least, three centuries. The proces s of leaving country was results of political, social and economical changes. Nowadays its mass character is connected with the need to improve material conditions. I present two aspects of this problem. First is connected with incompleteness of families in which one or both parents stay abroad for a long time. Studies show the effects of disordered family structure on the process, conditions and results of upbringing, in such families. Difficulty of upbringing, which parent has to solve alone, lack of free time for work and rest with children, are the cause of narrow of tutoring and caring function of such families. But there is the second aspect of Polish' migration. It has influences on whole life of migrants and of their families in long-Iasting perspective. People have to adapt to new conditions for them in a new country. They adjust to new tradition, customs, style of life, language etc. After coming back they adapt these knowledge to their families and local environment. They spend money on their children: their education, buy apartments for them, cars, flats or houses, start their own business. They also spend free time in different ways, even improve standard of the nearest surroundings. That is why migrations have personal, cultural and social effects.