Cultural transmission and reproduction as an example of socialization challenges faced by refugee mothers in PolandStreszczenie: Macierzyństwo jest niezwykle istotnym aspektem samookreślenia bez względu na kulturę pochodzenia, a w przypadku uchodźczyń (funkcjonujących bez wsparcia bliskich osób, rodziny, własnego społeczeństwa oraz jego norm kulturowych) pełni dodatkowo ważną rolę w konstruowaniu obrazu siebie. Kobiety nierzadko mają pod opieką dzieci, co w znacznym stopniu determinuje ich strategie przystosowawcze, zorientowane przede wszystkim na zapewnienie potomstwu bezpieczeństwa, warunków rozwoju i stabilizacji. Nie mniej istotne znaczenie ma to dla ich samopostrzegania się i samookreślenia, które w znacznym stopniu uwarunkowane są rolami płciowymi obowiązującymi w ich kulturze pochodzenia. W artykule omawiam najczęstsze dylematy identyfikacyjne matek-uchodźczyń z byłych Republik Radzieckich (Czeczenii, Dagestanu, Tadżykistanu), wśród których prowadzę od 2014 roku badania, oraz analizuję wpływ owych dylematów na wychowanie potomstwa. Na wstępie prezentuję podstawowe kwestie terminologiczne związane z socjalizacją i enkulturacją, które traktuję jako jedne z ważniejszych i trudniejszych wyzwań stojących przed kobietami-uchodźczyniami zamieszkałymi w Polsce. W dalszej części analizuję zależność między samooceną efektywności własnych działań rodzicielsko-wychowawczych dokonywaną przez kobiety-uchodźczynie a ich postawami adaptacyjnymi i strategiami akulturacyjnymi.Abstract: Maternity is an extremely important aspect of self-determination regardless of the culture of origin. In the case of refugee women (functioning without the support of close relatives, the family and their own society with its cultural norms), it additionally plays a crucial role in the construction of self-image. Women are often taken care of their children, which largely determines their adaptation strategies focused primarily on providing offspring with safety, development conditions and stability. No less important it is also for their self-perception and self-determination, which are to a large extent conditioned by the gender roles in their culture of origin. In the article, I discuss the most common dilemmas of mothers-refugees among whom I conduct research since 2014 (coming from former Soviet Republics: Chechnya, Dagestan, Tajikistan) and I analyse their impact on the upbringing of offspring.
Maternity is an extremely important aspect of self-determination regardless of the culture of origin. In the case of refugee women (functioning without the support of close relatives, the family, and their own society with its cultural norms), it additionally plays a crucial role in the construction of self-image. Women are often taken care of their children, which largely determines their adaptation strategies focused primarily on providing offspring with safety, development conditions, and stability. No less important it is also for their self-perception and self-determination, which are to a large extent conditioned by the gender roles in their culture of origin. In the article, I discuss the most common dilemmas of mothers-refugees among whom I conduct research since 2014 (coming from former Soviet Republics: Chechnya, Dagestan, Tajikistan) and I analyse their impact on the upbringing of offspring. At the beginning of the article, I present the basic terminological issues related to socialization and enculturation. These processes are considered to be one of the most important and difficult challenges faced by refugee women living in Poland. In the following part, I analyse the relationship between the self-assessment of the parental and educational activities effectiveness made refugee mothers and their adaptation attitudes and acculturation strategies.
Research conducted by the author in the years 2009–2014 among the children of refugees from Chechnya has shown that what is most important in terms of their functioning in the new culture occurs primarily in the family/ethnic environment, in the process of enculturation. This means that even though manifestations of progressing acculturation may be observed in the external sphere, this does not guarantee that the process is also occurring in the internal sphere of attitudes, convictions, and values. In this connection the writer’s attention was drawn to how under-age refugees from post-Soviet lands create a sense of identity and ethnic belonging. In particular, she considered the degree to which being a refugee and the situation in which these children find themselves have a formative influence on their self-identification. External indicators of ethnic, cultural, and religious identification were also analyzed. The author has thereby established the model—based on the two alternative strategies of reconstruction and deconstruction—by which young refugees create their self-identification.
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