Expats in Krakow
16 years ago
Dear madam and dear sir,
My name is Monika Dumanska. I come from Poland. Since already six years Im living in Frankfurt. Before I came here, I had been studying for two years German Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. I am studying since six semesters Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Spanish and German Philology at the J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt.
My main subject of study is Cultural Anthropology and I am interested in migration studies.
During tree semesters I was participating in the students project Offshore Living which aims to study the challenges of transnational everyday lives of highly mobile Professionals in Frankfurt and surroundings. Our project was carrying out a micro-level research on everyday realities of highly mobile transnational Professionals. It focuses into life worlds of transnational mobile Professionals, experts, and managers working and living temporarily in Frankfurt am Main and the region. I chose for my part the everyday live of families with children. That what I asked was f. e. traditions from their country of origins in comparison with the German way of life, but the most important for me was the school education and their influence in the upbringing of children. At the moment I am preparing me to write my thesis and I have decided to do a comparative study between Frankfurt and Krakow. That is the reason, why I am writing to you.
I would like to talk to some people who live and work in Krakow with theirs families and children, so that I can ask their about their daily life, question about the Culture. I mean e. e if you are celebrating some traditional feast from your country, if the children are going to international schools, with whom they are playing, meeting etc. In the other attachment you could find the abstract of the results of my field research here in Frankfurt. I will arrive to Krakow 23rd of November and will be there till 3rd of December.
If you need some information about our university project, you can take a look at our website
in German:
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~ilyes/offshore_living/de/index.html
or in English:
http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~ilyes/offshore_living/en/index.html
If you would like to help me getting information we would be truly grateful! Please contact me:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 00496996864398
Mobile: 0049176/23525799
I hope you can help me to find someone who could support my research.
I would be very grateful to here from you.
Best regards
In our project we want to elaborate how the life of the
expats
> and the highly skills in Frankfurt and Rhein Main Area looks like.
I'm
> personally mainly interested, how families organise their daily life.
So my
> focus is first of all onto children. I want to ask you questions
like, if
> the children are going to international schools, with whom the are
playing,
meeting etc
I´m still decided to
do
> this one: about the expatsfamilies and about how they organise their
daily
> life. First of all I´m intrested on the problems they you have: about
the
> schools of the children, thier friends, but also question about the
culture,
> I mean f.e if you are celebraiting some traditional feast from your
country
a.s.o.
It
> would be great, but about that all can decide you: the day, the hour
of the
> meeting or about the location, if you prefere the other one . Once
again
> thank you very much in advance for your cooperation. If you need more
> information abuot our project can also take a look at our website:
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Monika Dumanska
>
>
do send me a number where I could reach you, just in case
I'm late.
> mean, it is easier for me to meet you, when YOU have time ( I don´t
have to
> work like you, so...)
> Let me know, when is the better time to you to meet. I am glad to
can talk
> wiht you
Students course
Dear Madams, Dear (Verena Tröster and Monika Dumanska) are students in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Frankfurt University. We are participants in the students project Offshore Living" which is interested in the challenges of transnational everyday lives of highly mobile Professionals in Frankfurt and surroundings.
For our researches in the framework of the project, we would like to ask you if it is possible to get some information about partners of transnational Professionals and their children.
We would like to interview also the teachers who are working with this kind of children.
For more information about our course:
The students' project "Offshore Living" of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University Frankfurt am Main, is carrying out a micro-level research on everyday realities of highly mobile transnational Professionals. It investigates into life worlds of transnational mobile Professionals, experts, and managers working and living temporarily in Frankfurt am Main and the region.
Thank You!
Abstract: In most of the literature about expatriate families, the analyses of their life abroad shows them as people who are confronted with problems to fight with. Most of them do not have contact to the locals and the local environment; they do not know the host countrys language and stay in expatriate enclaves.
In my studies I am challenging this view and, accordingly, I carried out a research about
the everyday life of expatriate families particularly with children in the Rhein-Main area. During three months of fieldwork I used qualitative methods including participative observation, personal in-depth interviews and fieldwork diary writing.
As a result, for my respondents living in Germany this means on one side to keep on celebrating the traditions of their countries of origin, but, at the same time, to become acquainted with German traditions and habits (e.g. the celebration of festivities) and find a way to combine and enrich their repertoire of practices. It also means that they let their children learn German as well as their parents mother tongue/s (which may be two different languages). They do have contact to the local people and do not live in closed communities.
My overall conclusion is that expatriate families with children are generally more open-minded, flexible, and they treat the temporary residence in Germany more like an opportunity for the whole family than like a risky and problematic challenge.
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