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Introduction
transgressions;literarytestimoniesofemigration;travelaccountsandmemoiristic
texts;digitalmigrationdocuments;methodologyofmigrationresearch.
Tewidespectrumofproblemsrelatedtoandcomprisingtheconceptand
phenomenonofmigration,aswellastheinterdisciplinarynatureofthismono-
graph,makeitpartofthecurrenttrendofmigrantologyresearch.Itisworthem-
phasizingthatreflectionsonmigrationcanonlybemeaningfulifthesubjectis
consideredbyexpertsrepresentingavarietyofdisciplines;notonlydemographers,
historians,sociologists,butalsoculturalgeographers,socialanthropologists,liter-
aryscholarsandmanyotherspecialists1.Moreover,whilerecentlytherehasbeen
atendencytoexaminemigrationphenomenafromaninterdisciplinaryangle,the
focusofthestudieshasprimarilybeenthesocialcausesofmigrationandtheir
demographicandeconomicconsequences.Teculturalimplicationshavebeen
lesscommon.Formostoftheauthorsofthetextsincludedinthismonograph,
however,itispreciselythesetypesofconsequencesofmigrationthatconstitutethe
startingpointoreventhemainfieldofconsideration.
Itshouldbenotedthatinthegeneralscholarlydiscussion,themostfrequently
signaledproblemcontinuestobetheinsufcientlyexaminedculturalimplications
ofmigration.Tisisbecausetheyusuallyappearoccasionallyand/oralongwith
apostulateformoreextensiveresearch.Tesituationissimilar,ifnotlesspositive,
inthefieldofSlavicstudies,inwhichmigrationsarenotedanddescribed,but
theirculturalandsocialdimensionislessofenanalyzed.Meanwhile,thisaspect
isjustasimportant-ifnotmoreimportant-thantheotherfacets,asitshould
beassociatedwiththebasiccategoriesofculture,encompassingallhumanactiv-
ity,namely,thecultureofexistence,socialculture,andsymbolicculture2.Itisthe
changesinthesphereofculture-spurredbywanderingand,especially,collective
displacement-thatreflectapermanentfeatureofhumanity,thatis,theabilityto
seekandadapt,tomovebeyondortranscendrecognizedandfamiliarpatternsand
axionormativeframeworks.
Migration(Latin:migratiofrommigroab,ex,de,re,in,ad)3isunderstood
verybroadlybytheauthorsofthetextsinthismonograph;itislinkedtodiverse
actsoftransition,displacement,transfer,crossing,transgression,departure,aban-
donmentorwithdrawal.Tisbroadrangeofmeaningscoverstheactivityofcom-
munitiesandindividuals,bothintheliteralphysicalsenseandthepsychological,
1J.Och,Wielowymiarowośćmigracjijakozjawiskabadawczego,“NowaPolitykaWschodnia”
2.29,2021,p.9-25.
2K.RomaniszYn,Kulturoweimplikacjewspółczesnychmigracjimiędzynarodowych.Zaryspro-
blematykinaprzykładziePolski,“StudiaPolonijne”20,1999,p.85-110;A.Kłoskowska,Socjologia
kultury,Warszawa1983,p.111-124.
3Słownikłacińsko-polski,ed.K.Kumaniecki,Warszawa1995,p.309.
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