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He is one of the so-called “1.5 generation”, a child brought by his parents to spend their formative years in a new country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWDFR3WXUFB6LM46PK7ZXNVFMM","additional_properties":{"_id":"VR3GIGB4IZD2VF62A2K6JMETW4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"BL7DRKJP7BEHHBBOX7T5X2FPPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024741},"content":"It is 20 years since Poland joined the EU, when Ireland was one of three countries, along with the UK and Sweden, to offer citizens of the new member states full access to jobs. The “push” of high unemployment in their native land and the “pull” of the Celtic Tiger soon resulted in tens of thousands of young Polish adults making their way here. The estimated 2,000-strong Polish population in Ireland in 2002 had risen to more than 63,000 by the time of the 2006 Census. 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New subjects and new friends all through a new language. It was one more transition that gave an extra edge to his teenage quest for self-identity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UZWLOYGARJEHFPBUURV3GBJYPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024745},"content":"“Born in Poland, living in Ireland, speaking three languages daily. Looking in the mirror wondering – who really am I?” he writes. “All these situations were the reason for darker thoughts in my mind. Losing the sense of belonging is terrible.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z6XSNFMABBHIXHQVKV22KPEAZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024746},"content":"Although he did not encounter racism, “that does not mean I did not have any issues. I never felt Irish. I was not the typical Irish ‘lad’. The one with the sporty GAA lifestyle and fade skin and fringe haircut and Nike clothes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"33WBBQNVOJE2DK32EGX5LB25PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024747},"content":"His sense of Polishness remained crucial to him and, as he grew more confident through acclimatising to the gaelcholáiste, he joined the local Polish school in Kilkenny. Again, this was his own idea, but his parents were pleased.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMJM4TSP7VBD7CD4C7UJSK4WRY","additional_properties":{"_id":"BCRVETUGQVDDTMY5WIMTHSZCEQ"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"H6CDQ7AM7ZFN3L7FHU6UGRFN3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732533602745},"content":"“Going into Polish school every Friday afternoon was like landing in Poland. 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This was all the harder when they found themselves “trapped” within a younger age group if, due to their lack of proficiency in English, secondary schools insisted they start in first year, even though they had completed several years of second-level education in Poland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SPZLQKZGCRGPDOXARC3R2HTXXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024751},"content":"Not only did the teenagers have social exclusion to contend with here, but then they experienced changed attitudes among old friends and neighbours in their motherland. “Suddenly, in the home country, these migrants became strangers, labelled, ostracised or even taken advantage of,” writes Sokolowska. These young adults had become the “in betweeners” – feeling neither Irish nor fully Polish.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6GCDUKMFEFAQDMESSLE3QGG3EU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024752},"content":"Irish emigrants would have had experiences similar to those documented in this book, says Dr Share. 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There were older women, presumably grandparents, pushing children around in prams, but they were not Irish grandmothers – they were Polish – speaking in Polish to their grandchild.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLV3VYNDMNDJRDQ35GJHMKMEJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732533602752},"content":"It prompted her and a colleague to try to learn more about how one generation’s migration affects the generation before and after.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTEGKDEPFBCY5PMCIYSZQAB3ZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024754},"content":"The majority of Polish migrants who came here for employment opportunities in the first years of EU enlargement were adults in their 20s, enjoying new freedom of movement, who had yet to start their own families. Share’s co-editor, Dr Bobek, was one of those. At the time she felt her move away from Poland would be permanent but, having been in the US for a year and a half before Ireland, she did not know where she might eventually settle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVEM7KBS5FFQ7AYZKH6PEUNTII","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024755},"content":"It is common that immigrants come for one reason and stay for another, she suggests. 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She has spoken to him in her mother tongue since birth (he answers her in English), first and foremost for the benefit of a bilingual upbringing. “It opens up your brain,” she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3J3DPRS6KNEZ5L5EAN3LOIOZSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732026698615},"content":"But she also realised that when she brings him back to Poland for summer holidays, “he can understand everything and it’s kind of cool – and he feels cool about it”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6TUZSD4QBC2PFGNLYHTEWVFHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024760},"content":"Local customs and circumstances inevitably shape migrants’ attitudes to parenthood. The lack of accessible and affordable childcare in Ireland is one particularly significant influence on emerging Polish families who do not have the well-established social supports of Irish peers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4HC2K5O6VAM3IZKEPP66BXZ5Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1732533602761},"content":"This can go a number of ways. Grandmothers, as mentioned earlier, may be drawn here from Poland, where women can retire at 60. Or Polish women here may find themselves becoming more of a traditional “Mother Pole” than they had intended, if childcare proves to be insurmountable obstacle to returning to employment. In other cases, where working couples can juggle childcare in relay shifts, fatherhood becomes much more hands on for Polish men than the male “provider” model they grew up with.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MB4YKYOPIRHCPNKKQZXKPVYEEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732008024761},"content":"Meanwhile, Mikolaj Lesniak is now aged 19 and chose to take a gap year rather than go straight on to third-level education after completing his Leaving Certificate last June. 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There is a programme for each class level from junior infants to sixth class, so the concepts and skills can become consolidated and embedded over the course of the child’s time in primary school.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6SUG3IVP2BGM7ICFFXF72GDIDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726155717128},"content":"These resources offer a comprehensive, “cohesive approach and a common language for discussing mental health and wellbeing”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PALDQOULEBCC3FDRPLPOFIPQKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726155717129},"content":"Not-for-profit <a href=\"https://childrensmentalwellbeing.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">Children’s Mental Wellbeing</a> offer online fee-based modules and courses for parents, guardians, carers and teachers, in an effort to make “mental health education accessible to all”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNH636KCBJEZXPHXJWNXANKABM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732032138820},"content":"While those programmes and resources have to be paid for, <a href=\"https://jigsaw.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">Jigsaw</a>, the youth mental health organisation, offer teachers an accessible, self-directed four-module course upon registering with each module, taking approximately 40 minutes to complete. 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