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New Londoners Immigration Narratives in Contemporary Polish Culture

New Londoners Immigration Narratives in Contemporary Polish Culture. Kris Van Heuckelom K.U.Leuven kris @vanheuckelom.be. A Polish emigrant boarding the 'General Grant' ( 1907, Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images ).

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New Londoners Immigration Narratives in Contemporary Polish Culture

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  1. New LondonersImmigration Narratives in Contemporary Polish Culture Kris Van Heuckelom K.U.Leuven kris@vanheuckelom.be

  2. A Polish emigrant boarding the 'General Grant' (1907, Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

  3. Adam Mickiewicz, The Books of the Polish Nation and the Polish Pilgrimage (Paris 1832)

  4. Manuela Gretkowska, We Are Immigrants Here & Paris Tarot (Warsaw 1991 & 1993)

  5. Londoners, Polish Public Television (TVP 1), 2008-2009 (2 seasons, 29 episodes)

  6. Mazierska 2009 Polish migration to the UK in the 'new' European Union: after 2004 (in K. Burrell (ed.), Polish migration to the UK in the 'new' European Union: after 2004)

  7. Mazierska 2009 Polish migration to the UK in the 'new' European Union: after 2004 “they [Polish films] treat an emigrant as an anomaly from the norm and a problem for which somebody is to blame” (p. 123) “Polish emigrants are rarely featured in films produced in other countries” (p. 109)

  8. UK 1982 dir. Jerzy Skolimowski

  9. The Grass Is Greener Everywhere Else BRD 1989 dir. Michael Klier

  10. The Illegal France 1994 dir. Jean-Louis Bertucelli

  11. Ant Street Austria 1995 dir. Michael Glawogger

  12. The Ballad of the Windscreen Washers Italy 1998 dir. Peter Del Monte

  13. The Polish Bride The Netherlands 1998 dir. Karim Traïdia

  14. y Austria 2003 dir. Ruth Mader

  15. y Four Weeks in June Sweden 2004 dir. Henry Meyer

  16. UK2007 dir. Ken Loach

  17. UK2007 dir. Dominic Lees

  18. UK2008 dir. Shane Meadows

  19. Strong identification of labor migration and Polish ethnicity”Labor migrants are (often) Poles”“Polesare (often) labor migrants”

  20. Two categoriesThe action takes place1. during communism2. after the fall of communism

  21. First category1. Polish main characters2. Rare & unpleasant contacts with locals3. Tragic elements

  22. Moonlighting

  23. Second category1. Polish & local main characters2. “Interethnic” love story3. The newcomer ”helps” the locals and ”solves” their problems

  24. “postmodern migrant”

  25. “political emigrant”

  26. Exile vs. Gastarbeiter

  27. Andrzej

  28. Andrzej’s future father-in-law

  29. Polska vs. Obczyzna

  30. Nina

  31. Interethnic romances & marriages

  32. Season 1, final episode(engagement of Darek & Mariola)

  33. Season 2, final episode(wedding of Darek & Mariola)

  34. Season 2, final episode(wedding of Andrzej & Asia)

  35. Polish couples in Londyńczycy

  36. Nina

  37. Paweł defends Polish interests

  38. Andrzej the Polish problem solver

  39. New LondonersImmigration Narratives in Contemporary Polish Culture Kris Van Heuckelom K.U.Leuven kris@vanheuckelom.be

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