Bilingwizm drugiej generacji migrantów a problem kształtowania się ich poczucia narodowego

Following Poland’s entry into the EU, over 2 million people have emigrated, most of them young people and future parents. During the next few years, the Polish Diaspora will grow as thousands of children are born outside of their parents’ homeland. These children will have to accept their Polish roots and find their place in their new adopted country. Language is the key to understanding their inherited culture and the culture of their adopted country. There is a growing generation of children who are brought up from birth with two languages and two cultures. The task of parents, teachers and the Polish government is to ensure that this bilingualism is an asset to both the children, and the countries. This requires thoughtful support from parents and, moreover, an understanding of the different types of language transfer / linguistic interference common when ‘living in two languages’.