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Children on the Move. Different Facets of Migration And POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK KOMITET BADAŃ NAD MIGRACJAMI STUDIA MIGRACYJNE – PRZEGLĄD POLONIJNY KWARTALNIK Rok XL – 2014 – z. 3 (153) SPECIAL ISSUE: CHILDREN ON THE MOVE. DIFFERENT FACETS OF MIGRATIONS IN CHILDHOOD Editors: Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska and Agnieszka Trąbka PAN WARSZAWSKA DRUKARNIA NAUKOWA WARSZAWA 2014 Wydawca: Komitet Badań nad Migracjami Polskiej Akademii Nauk RADA PROGRAMOWA Adam Walaszek (UJ) – przewodniczący Grzegorz Babiński (UJ), Kazimierz Dopierała (UAM), Elżbieta M. Goździak (Georgetown University) Marcin Kula (UW), Magdalena Marszałek (Universität Potsdam), Marek Okólski (UW), Krystyna Slany (UJ) REDAKCJA Dorota Praszałowicz (UJ) – redaktor naczelna Jan Brzozowski (UEK) – dział recenzji, Michał Garapich (Roehampton University, Wielka Brytania), Agata Górny (UW), Paweł Kaczmarczyk (UW), Anna Kaganiec-Kamieńska (UJ) – sekretarz redakcji, Mikołaj Stanek (Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra – Portugal), Magdalena Ślusarczyk (UJ) ADRESY REDAKCJI Prezydium PAN, Pałac Kultury i Nauki, 00-901 Warszawa Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Rynek Główny 34, 31-010 Kraków, tel. 012 429-61-57 Wydanie publikacji dofi nansowane przez Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego Redakcja techniczna: Agnieszka Trąbka Realizacja wydawnicza: PAN Warszawska Drukarnia Naukowa Skład i druk: PAN Warszawska Drukarnia Naukowa, ul. Śniadeckich 8, 00-656 Warszawa tel./fax 22 628-76-14 e-mail: [email protected] www.wdnpan.pl TABLE OF CONTENTS Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Agnieszka Trąbka: From children of migrants to migrant children. Introduction to the special issue . 5 Dirk Hoerder: Education for a Transcultural Life-World or for a Hegemonic Nation? Schooling in the British Empire, in France, and in Canada, 1830s-2000s . 17 I. CONSTRUCTING HOME BY SECOND GENERATION MIGRANTS Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna: Children of Sánchez 50 Years Later: Agency of Transnational Children . 33 Katarzyna Wójcikowska: Homecoming or adventure? Motivations of Polish return migrants who grew up abroad and their determinants . 51 Sabrina Weiß: Second-Generation Koreans in West Germany: Generation of Heirs or Fashioner of a Faith of Their Own? . 69 II. “ON THE ROAD AGAIN” – IDENTITIES OF THIRD CULTURE KIDS Agnieszka Trąbka: Being chameleon. The infl uence of multiple migration in childhood on identity construction . 87 Katia Mace, Liz Winter: Adolescent and pre-adolescent migration: implications for identity . 107 Kornelia Zakrzewska-Wirkus: Who am I, where do I belong, what is my faith? – Psychological and spiritual problems of Third Culture Kids . 129 Raymond A. Powell: Was John Calvin a TCK? Applying modern socio-scientifi c research on highly mobile populations to historical studies . 139 III. PARENTING IN THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION Paula Pustułka: Child-centred narratives of Polish migrant mothers: cross-generational identity constructions abroad . 151 Adéla Souralová: The Czech Nanny as a “Door to the Majority” for Children of Vietnamese Immigrants in the Czech Republic . 171 Luena Marinho: Parent-child separation in Angolan transnational families . 187 Joanna Kulpińska: The children left behind and their place in the social structure . 203 IV. CHILDREN MIGRANTS IN DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS – CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS Ewa Nowicka: Adaptation and Cultural Contact. Immigrant children in Warsaw high schools . 219 Izabela Czerniejewska: Public or international? Migrating students in two types of schools of Poznań . 243 Monika Rerak-Zampou: Social integration of Polish Adolescents from Greek and Polish high schools in Athens . 259 Małgorzata Kułakowska: Polish children in English schools. Institutional challenges and solutions . 277 Beatrix Bukus: Students in the context of migration attending Hungarian and German public education: categorisation and statistical data collection . 297 V. HOST COUNTRY POLICIES TOWARD CHILDREN MIGRANTS Behnaz Tavakoli: Multiple Discriminations against Afghan Girls in Iran . 321 Zorana Medarić, Tjaša Žakelj: From Normative Acceptance to Prejudices and Violence: Interethnic relations in the school environment in Slovenia . 339 Katharina Benedetter, Marianne Dobner: CulTrain – Cultural Orientation Trainings. An integration measure in Austria tackling adaption problems of young refugees . 361 Karolina Łukasiewicz, Joanna Grzymała-Moszczyńska: Discriminatory Migration Policy? An access to education among migrant children in Poland . 375 SUMMARIES . 391 HALINA GRZYMAŁA-MOSZCZYŃSKA Jagiellonian University, Kraków AGNIESZKA TRĄBKA Pontifi cal University of John Paul II, Kraków FROM CHILDREN OF MIGRANTS TO MIGRANT CHILDREN The focus of this volume is on migrant children. As a research sample, they represent the next consecutive step in the development of research on migration, after men-centered and women-centered approaches. Switching to children-centered research represents a defi nite novelty in the approach to migration, since for many decades such research has operated under the assumption that migrants are always adult males (Pedraza 1991, Zlotnik 2003). Both women’s and children’s participation in migration was considered insignifi cant. They appeared as additions to or passive benefi ciaries of men’s decisions to migrate. Therefore, it is correct to say that early studies on international migration were gender and age-biased. Women were not only considered as a negligible part of the workforce (their domestic work for family was not classifi ed as work because it was unpaid), but also as generally inaccessible for researchers because of the language barrier and seclusion within the private sphere. A defi nite change came in the 1990s, when the inclusion of women in studies on migration became more numerous. Edward Hofstetter (2005) prepared a vast bibliography documenting trends in studies of female migrants. Stephen Castles and Mark Miller, in their book Age of Migrations, write about the “feminization of migration” as one of the important trends at the end of the twentieth century. More and more often, women have become pioneer migrants or main breadwinners in a household. This trend is still continuing, and many publications show that women have become a signifi cant part of the labor force concentrated 6 Halina Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Agnieszka Trąbka on domestic service and care work. Immigrant women have been stepping into “newly vacated” local households in richer countries, from which local women have entered the labor market, be it in their own country or abroad (Slany 2010; Slany, Małek 2005). Research on migrant children – the focus group of this volume – began in the late 1990s as well. Demographers noted that immigrant children comprised the fastest growing segment of the local populations (Hernandez 1999). Researchers primarily analyzed their adaptation to the new countries. Special emphasis was placed on adolescents and their transition from childhood to adulthood, as well as decision-making processes pertaining to defi ning their identity vis-a-vis the identities of their parents (Berry, Phinney, Vedder 2006). How they cope with decisions concerning the extent to which they should positively respond to the expectations of the new society and also, at the same time, to what extent they should resist the expectations, values and behavior patterns of their family and community, became a central research topic. Most of the research was concerned with school adjustments, but fi ndings were inconclusive. Both positive adaptation outcomes as well as negative results of the adaptation process were presented in the literature (Vedder, Horenczyk 2006). This highly unsatisfactory outcome stemmed from two facts. First, acculturation measures used for children were identical to measures used for the adult population. Secondly, many diffi culties attributed to the migration process were rather age than migration-related. Intra-family confl icts between parents and children could serve as an example of confl ict existing in both migrant and non-migrant families, but many researchers attributed them only to the situation of children as migrants in a foreign country. In either case, the acculturation of children has been analyzed chiefl y as acculturation within a family or school context. Surprisingly little research has been devoted to the psychological response of children to the experience of migration on the individual level. The changed and still changing situation of children within migratory fl ows justifi es a closer look at the impact of this process on children’s situations and well-being. Several reasons for such a decision could be specifi ed here. First of all, migratory trajectories of children and parents do not need to be, and as a matter of fact no longer are, identical or even parallel. Children migrate not only with their parents, or because of their parents’ decision, but more and more often they migrate individually, both voluntarily and involuntarily. Voluntary migrations include educational goals – for example, participation in Comenius, Erasmus or Semester Abroad programs. Involuntary migrations begin because of war or persecutions – children fl ee their own countries with parents or as unaccompanied minors in search of safety. Secondly, return migration or From children of migrants to migrant children. Introduction to the special issue 7 immigration of parents could represent emigration of children who are leaving the country to which their parents had emigrated years before, but in which they were born or have spent almost all of their lives. Thirdly, children are involved
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