Open AccessZakotwiczanie się. Migrantki z Polski w norweskim przedszkolu
Author(s) -
Izabela Czerniejewska
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
problemy wczesnej edukacji
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-2230
pISSN - 1734-1582
DOI - 10.26881/pwe.2019.45.08
Subject(s) - norwegian , ethnography , participant observation , livelihood , context (archaeology) , sociology , work (physics) , polish , adaptation (eye) , political science , gender studies , psychology , social science , geography , anthropology , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , neuroscience , agriculture
Based on participant observation and ethnographic interviews with Polish women working in kin-dergartens in Norway, this article studies the migrant women’s employment trajectories, including adaptation processes in the workplace and integration into the wider Norwegian society. In this paper, I aim at answering the following questions: How do Polish migrant women go about seek-ing employment in Norwegian kindergartens? How do they adapt to the new work environment? How do they deal with cross-cultural differences in childcare? How did they learn new norms and values within the institutional context of kindergartens? The research indicates that employment in kindergartens was not merely a way to provide for one’s livelihood, but was also a mechanism to establish and develop a closer relationship with members of the Norwegian society, a tool facilitating meaningful connections with the new country.