Polish Migrants In Sweden: An Overview

Lubińska, Dorota

doi:10.2478/fsp-2013-0006

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“…A typical characteristic of the old migration is its relatively high socioeconomic status in Swedish society (cf. Pettersen and Østby 2014;Lubińska 2013; see also Runfors 2020 on the cultural capital of children to these migrants). Most of the members of this group possess both high education levels and professional skills valued in Sweden; some of these migrants had, at the point of migration, qualifications almost directly transferable to the Swedish labour market, while others lost the status that their social positions guaranteed them in Poland, but retrained for the Swedish labour market (e.g.…”

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“…King, Fogle, and Logan-Terry 2008;Schwartz 2010;Spolsky 2012;Lanza and Li 2016;Schwartz and Verschik 2013;Lanza and Li 2016; Curdt-Christiansen and Lanza 2018; Curdt-Christiansen 2018; King and Lanza 2019;Lanza and Lexander 2019), the context of the multi-generational migrant family amongst the Polish migrants in Sweden has yet not received scholarly attention. This is surprising, given that Polish migrants comprise one of the oldest migrant groups in Sweden (Lubińska 2013) and constitutes the largest and oldest Polish concentration in the Nordic countries (Michalik 1997;Pettersen and Østby 2014). Studies of family language choice provide a window into family language policy (Spolsky 2004(Spolsky , 2009Curdt-Christiansen 2018;Lanza 2020) and are one of the three major research areas within the field of family language policy (FLP) (Curdt-Christiansen 2018).…”

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Intra-familial language choice in two multi-generational Polish-Swedish-speaking families

Lubińska

2020

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Informed by Spolsky's language policy model and the notion of audience design, this study addresses the under-researched context of the multigenerational family originating in the old Polish migration to Sweden. Two families were studied with a focus on (i) intra-familial language choice, and (ii) language policies derived from this choice and from individual reflections. Data were collected through an open-ended bilingual form and interviews, and then underwent descriptive, thematic and appraisal analysis. The findings suggest that family language policy is a heterogeneous social phenomenon. At the ideological level, Polish is the language of the family at home. At the level of practice, family members modify the policy in multiple ways. Language management is primarily verbalised as consequent usage of Polish within the family. Also, an agency belief is expressed, meaning that subsequent generations make independent linguistic choices. With respect to the influence of audience design, the families adjust to the language of the participating audience. With a non-participating audience, Swedish is a preferred or accepted choice. This paper concludes that there should be a follow-up study on the families presented here, which would further contribute to the still limited understanding of how family language policies are reshaped by later generations.

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