Transnational families - the educational environment of children and young people from migrant families

Abstract

The migration of nations is a phenomenon that has been with us since time immemorial, always being a very important factor of societal development. Currently, only its motives and scope have changed. Nowadays, the migration of Polish citizens has a specific meaning and has become a natural state of affairs. There is nothing surprising in spontaneous migrations in search of better employment. What is more, living a foreign country for one or two years has become a widely approved norm. Motivations that are of importance at this day and age are the willingness to earn as much as possible, improve one’s living condition, learn a foreign language, and push one’s professional career further. The migration of people is not a new issue, but in the age of globalization, it is becoming notably more common, as well as more interesting for scientists, especially due to its diverse nature and changes that it initiates in various walks of life of migrants. The family is one of the basic social groups, it is an "internal world", but it is also subject to external influences that reach through various channels and shape the social and individual system of values and norms of social behavior of individual members. One of the factors influencing the family and transforming it is the labor migration process.