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Immigrant Social Capital and the Hybridization of the Nation State: The Case of Poland

By Elżbieta Budakowska.

Published by The Global Studies Journal

Since the contemporary global migrations are constantly increasing, the future of the nation
states is very much related to the trends and patterns of those movements and population changes
resulting from them. One of the most important consequence is the phenomena of people’s replacement
at the world, regional or local labor markets. It leads to rise of new differences and growing hybridization,
both in receiving and sending countries. In case of Poland, in about 97 % homogeneous
nation state, recent social-political transformation has caused greater openness and the change of the
country status, from the traditionally emigrant into the emigrant-immigrant one. Since 1990 new immigrant
communities are systematically being established and are influencing different aspects of the host
society. Simultaneously, own selected emigration that causes social repercussions,
too. In some fields we are witnessing the phenomena of people’s replacement. Newcomers
are from the neighboring countries as well as from Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. This paper
focuses on some theoretical issues connected immigrant social capital and hybridization as
well as empirical observation of intercultural relations between Vietnamese new immigrant community
and Poland.

Global Studies Journal, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp.37-48. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 629.105KB).

Prof. Elżbieta Budakowska

Academic, IPSiR, Department of Sociology of Social Changes, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland