Poland outside Poland 2700-M-FAK-D-POPO
The lecture is devoted to the history of Polish political and economic emigration after 1945. There are reflections on the political issues (political thought, concepts and international geo-political issues), social (ways of organizing, objectives and functions of the immigrants organization) and cultural (literature, media, journalism, political writing (authors and institutions.) Analysis of the emigrants relations with the country, immigration as undergoing phenomena changing in a space of time. In the case of economic immigration the issues discussed and interpreted in a lecture, the reasons for departures, the nature of the residence, its effects (cultural and economic) and social consequences.
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
After completing the course, student:
KNOWLEDGE
1. knows polish history of political exile in the twentieth century
2. knows the reasons why the Poles chose trips of an economic nature in the nineteenth-XXW.
3. has the information necessary to evaluate and understand the specifics of political and economic emigration
4 has the knowledge on the role and specificity of culture and literature in the immigration conditions
5 knows clusters of the relationships between emigration and the country
SKILLS
1. is able to distinguish between behavior and identity of political and economic emigration
2. understands the reasons for the specificity of the political exile, political thinking
3. understands the role of social organizations produced by the political emigration.
4. is able to analyze the political migrants expressions regardless to their forms
5. understands the nature of contacts with the outside world emigration
6. understands the social, political, cultural consequences of both political and economic emigration
OTHER COMPETENCES
Student is able to interpret the strategies taken by emigrants, understands the relationships between each political immigration stages; is aware of the importance of emigration for the Polish culture and identit
Assessment criteria
Exam based on lectures and bibliography
Practical placement
Lack of
Bibliography
Rafał Habielski, Polski Londyn, Wrocław 2000;
Rafał Habielski, Dokąd nam iść wypada?
Jerzy Giedroyc od „Buntu Młodych” do „Kultury”, Warszawa 2006;
Ludzie na huśtawce. Migracje między peryferiami Polski i Zachodu, red. E. Jaźwińska i M. Okólski;
Emigrować czy wracać. Migracje zarobkowe Polaków a polityka państwa, Warszawa 2007
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