The first main phase of data collection has been successfully completed. Katarzyna Jendrzey worked in Wrocław and other regions in southwestern Poland, conducting dozens of interviews with children, who gave us exciting insights – into their experiences with migration and into where and how they position themselves in the world. The next step is now to evaluate the data before we continue with the next round of data collection at the beginning of next year.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to all the children who were willing to talk to us, who were so open, and who shared their experiences and knowledge with us.

A big thank you also goes to all participating schools and to the parents who supported us in the survey. Without this commitment, the successful completion of this data collection phase would not have been possible.

Our team was represented at the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco, where we gave three presentations and also co-organized our own section. This gave us the opportunity to present our current research projects and findings to an international audience of experts. The intensive exchange with scientists from all over the world was extremely enriching: we were able to take away many new ideas and impulses for our ongoing work and projects, deepen existing networks, and initiate new collaborations.

We are thrilled to announce the approval of a follow-up project to DoDzi on the topic “Self-Positioning in transnational spaces – Children's narrations and narrations about children living in transnational families”. Alexandra König, Jessica Schwittek, and Katarzyna Jendrzey from the University of Duisburg-Essen and Dorota Michułka from the University of Wrocław will be joined this time by Magdalena Rembowska-Płuciennik from the Polish Academy of Sciences Warszawa and Sabina Świtała, also from the University of Wrocław. The new project will begin in January 2025. More information to follow soon.

The project is funded by the DFG and the NCN.