Monthly Archives: January 2017

//January

4 months mother, 8 months immigrant (ROMANIA)

 Alexandra Gherasim-An interview - Hello. Would you agree to take part in a study about families split by contemporary migration? - Yes, I agree. - What's your name? - Gherasim Alexandra - And how old are you? - I'm 18.- Who left from your family? - My mother. - Since when? - Six years. - [...]

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Every year I promise that it is the last year (Poland)

(5 construction site workers) Why they came? Every case is for sure different. Me, I was working in Poland and I wanted to change my way of life most of all. To have a possibility to earn more. In practical terms it made me to leave work and this is how I am here. Yes, [...]

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East or West, home’s the best. There’s no place like home (Poland)

(3 construction workers) Why did they arrive? It’s pure coincidence, meeting some people and going abroad. For example, one of my relatives left, he pulled in the next one and then one by one, each pulls in the next one. Well, I would disagree with you because I am not here by coincidence. My business [...]

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One nearly careless summer (Bulgaria)

Iliana (from Plovdiv) One summer I did not have any plans and I decided to work abroad. And that's what I did because my sister's mother in law was already there and I knew she could help me find a job. I stayed there for three months. It was the year of 2005, I arrived [...]

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