TY - JOUR
TI - Between the Old and the New World: Similarities, Differences, Opportunities and Limitations
AU - Dmuchała, Joanna
TI - Between the Old and the New World: Similarities, Differences, Opportunities and Limitations
AB - 
	Having arrived in the United States at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Polish emigrants found themselves in a foreign and often unfriendly environment. Despite cultural differences, Polish women who did not know the language and American traditions were able to create themselves and their own/new space by transcending the borders of the home world and through involvement in social life. From the end of the 19th century, women of Polish origin had created an educational system that allowed them to work within their ethnic community, establish orphanages, work in charitable associations and organize strikes and boycotts, thus proving their political strength. Taking advantage of the freedom of association existing in American society and the tradition ofv solidarity and self-help in the neighborhood, Polish immigrant women began to establish local societies of mutual assistance, which in 1898 united in one central organization – the Polish Women’s Union in America – providing women with insurance, care for the preservation of national identity and emancipation.
VL - 2019 (XLV)
IS - Vol. 4 (174)
PY - 2019
SN - 2081-4488
C1 - 2544-4972
SP - 57
EP - 76
DO - 10.4467/25444972SMPP.19.039.11353
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/smpp/article/miedzy-starym-a-nowym-swiatem-podobienstwa-roznice-szanse-i-ograniczenia
KW - emigration to the USA
KW - female migrants
KW - emancipation