I legami intergenerazionali oltre i confini: una tipologia dei rapporti fra immigrati polacchi nei Paesi Bassi e i loro genitori anziani

Though transnational family relations have been receiving increasing scientific attention in Europe and beyond, most work focuses on transnational child-rearing rather than intergenerational ties in adulthood. Also, little is known about how the “new” migrants, the recent migrants from Central and Eastern European countries, maintain their family relationships across borders. A focus on Polish migrants is particularly relevant, given that they are the largest group in the post EU-enlargement migration wave. The first attempts to describe the intergenerational ties of Polish migrants and their ageing parents have been based on small-scale in-depth studies, and describe strategies that migrants develop to fulfill their obligations towards aging parents living in Poland. The authors address this gap by constructing a typology of adult child-parent relations of Polish migrants in transnational context. The study of recent migrants adds to our understanding of the dynamics of early stages of migration. The main research question focuses on the types of relationships bind recent Polish migrants to the Netherlands with their parents living in Poland. Moreover, dependency of the distribution of those types on the socio-demographic characteristic of child and parent is also explored.