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The Social Networks of Female Polish Workers in the CR and the Factors Influencing their Formation

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2011

Abstract

The chapter deals with a group of female Polish workers who was invited to Czechoslovakia as a labor force and later married Czech men and settled on the Czechoslovak territory. Until now these women form a specific segment of the Polish ethnic group in the Czech Republic.

The aim of the chapter is to describe their most common social networks in which these women live and the process of their creating. Particular attention is paid to factors which help them or hinder their creation.