Identity and socio-cultural capital: Duality of transnational people in Poland

Abstract

Transnational mobility became one of the more important processes in recent years in Poland. This has led to the intensification of intercultural contacts and, in consequence, to intermarriages. It is difficult to assess how widespread this phenomenon was in the communist days but it was certainly quite marginal. Assumedly, intercultural contacts and transnational marriages will grow in number with the deepening of European integration and the increase in the scale of international migration. My hypothesis that bi-national persons treat their social and cultural duality as the source of social and cultural capital was confirmed only partially. More often bi-national and bi-cultural origin are a difficult burden, a stigma rather than a social capital in the individual's life or within his/her social perspective.

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