TY - JOUR TI - Returning Children Migrants – Main Challenges in School Environment AU - Szydłowska, Paulina AU - Durlik, Joanna AU - Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Halina TI - Returning Children Migrants – Main Challenges in School Environment AB - The present paper is based on the research project “(Un)easy returns home. The functioning of children and young people returning from emigration”, the main goal of which was to investigate and describe the experience of children from Polish returning migrant families, and specifically to answer the question: What kind of challenges do children from families returning to Poland face when entering the Polish educational system? We conducted qualitative research taking into consideration four perspectives: children, adolescents, parents and teachers. In this paper, we focus on the most important challenges in a new educational context based on the narrations of children, adolescents, parents and teachers and dividing the challenges into three groups: purely educational, socio-cultural and emotional. Finally, we also discuss best practices which proved helpful for children’s adaptation to the new environment and which may be used in the school context VL - 2019 (XLV) IS - Nr 1 (171) PY - 2019 SN - 2081-4488 C1 - 2544-4972 SP - 171 EP - 192 DO - 10.4467/25444972SMPP.19.008.10258 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/smpp/artykul/returning-children-migrants-main-challenges-in-school-environment KW - return migration KW - children migrants KW - return culture shock KW - integration KW - education