STRATEGIE TOŻSAMOŚCIOWE GLOBALNYCH NOMADÓW: OD WYKORZENIENIA PO RÓŻNE FORMY ZAKORZENIANIA SIĘ

Migration in childhood in connection with a parent’s work is a contemporary experience that is becoming increasingly common. However, it has seldom previously been the subject of sociological interest. On the basis of 53 biographical interviews, the author discusses the most important life challenges and advantages arising from such a mobile and multicultural childhood. She also attempts to create the identity strategy undertaken by Third Culture Kids (as this category of persons is described in the - mainly American - literature). She pays particular attention to the problems of84 AGNIESZKA TRĄBKA constructing a national identity, giving coherence and continuity to one’s own identity, and territorial identification.