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Juba, the capital of autonomous South Sudan, is becoming a regional metropolis. After the civil war ended in 2005, there was a flood of migration into the city. Juba is already a city of various cultures, as well as numerous conflicts in which ethnic groups are often involved, but is now involved in a kind of experimental urban ground for interrelationships between different ethnicities in post-war...
The Peruvian failure and an attempt to repair it. On Polish interwar emigration and colonial conceptsIn the interwar Poland, emigration was considered a possible solution of numerous interior problems of the country. That is why the contemporary Polish authorities believed in the success of colonial plans. In the early 1930s, Peru became a place where these efforts were intensified, encouraged by...
Międzywojenna Polska w emigracji postrzegała możliwość złagodzenia występujących napięć społeczno-gospodarczych. Owe wysiłki nazywano planami czy też ambicjami kolonialnymi. Peru na początku lat trzydziestych XX wieku stało się swoistym poligonem tych wysiłków przy zachęcie prezydenta tego kraju. Obszary osiedlenia w środkowym biegu Ucayali zostały zbadane, z pozytywnym wynikiem, przez przysłaną z...
Central Asian Gypsies: identities and migrationsDuring recent years the topic of Gypsy/Roma migration and identities became burning topic of pan-EUropean public discourse. Much less attention is paid to the Gypsy migrations outside the borders of European Union. The present article has ambitious goal to fulfill this gap and to present contemporary Gypsy migrations in Post-soviet Central Asian in order...
Key theories of international migrations: overview, critique and perspectivesThe article aims at critical review of the key theories of international migration. The starting point is the assumption that a critical review of theoretical literature is a necessary component of the research process, especially regarding such rapidly growing field as migration studies. The authors analyze the most important...
Gaining social mobility: Polish migrants in Berlin, 1980-2016Social mobility can be both horizontal and vertical. The latter is characterised by movement from a lower social class to a higher one, and with it a change in social status. Upward social mobility appears in different guises; it can pertain to education, occupation, cultural capital, income etc. Until recently, the phenomenon of upward...
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