This thesis takes as its subject Polish families who migrated to Edinburgh after Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004. It analyses the families’ post-migration trajectories and experiences, and investigates how these are influenced by factors relating to Polish history and culture, by features particular to the post-accession migration wave and by families’ individual characteristics. Theoretical approaches are drawn from a range of academic disciplines including, reference group theory, literature relating to gender-division of paid work and child-care, and ‘mobilities’ theory, and these approaches are all employed in exploring the factors that influence family members’ integration, employment and lifestyles and their plans for the future. This qualitative study focuses on the experiences of thirty families living in and around Edinburgh in the two years from 2009 to 2011, and combines a variety of methods in data-collection and in analysis. Families were interviewed twice with a year lapse between interviews, couples were interviewed jointly and conversational interviews were supplemented with questionnaires. These design features enable analysis of change over time, provide insight into family-dynamics and generate a range of forms of data. In analysis the combination of thematic coding of interview transcripts with Qualitative Comparative Analysis, allows in-depth exploration of experiences at the individual and family level to be positioned within the context of trends and patterns observed across the whole group. The study finds that the families fall into distinct types according to particular key characteristics and migration strategies, and that the different family types are linked to different experiences of life in Scotland and plans for the future. Younger migrants who arrived independently, decided to stay and later started families are found to be embarking on new careers and making use of the greater flexibility of the employment market in the UK to enact their preferred division of work and childcare. In line with previous research findings, for families whose oldest child is preschool age, school start date in Poland is identified as critical in limiting the period in which parents feel the decision about whether to return can be made. Parents who migrated with school-age children because of financial hardship in Poland are highlighted in this study as a previously under-researched post-accession migrant group; among these families most parents within the study group are found to have been considering permanent settlement at the time of migration and to be maintaining this intention; their decision to stay is particularly influenced by concerns about the difficulties that they anticipate their children would encounter in re-entering the school system in Poland and about their own reduced ability to re-enter the labour market there after de-skilling in employment in the UK. Parents who migrated to take up professional work in the UK are identified as possessing the highest levels of ‘motility’, that is, capacity to make use of mobility generally; among the study group these parents are found to have the most varied options and future plans and to be those who indicate the greatest likelihood of leaving the UK in the short term.

Fifty-one male and 57 female college undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory psychology course responded to the Roe-Siegelman PCR Questionnaire, a modified form of Tharp's (1963b) Marital Role Expectation Form (MRE), and a Family Integration Scale as fulfillment of research participation requirements. Previous research had indicated that generally children who experienced love and warmth in their childhood home had marital role expectations of friendliness, spontaneity, adaptability, trust, responsibility, and leadership, while those who experienced rejecting and neglecting parental behaviors were more likely to have expectations of being seclusive, guilty, hostile, rigid, mistrustful, and irresponsible.

El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como propósito validar y sustentar la implementación de nuestro servicio de integración familiar con juegos retro con alternativas para el compartir familiar. Diverti Family, es la mejor opción para unir a las familias, con tiempo de calidad y que a través del valor de nuestra propuesta trascienda en el tiempo. Además permitirá evocar juegos retro los cuales pueden elegir según sus preferencias y de igual manera aprovechar estos momentos de diversión para enseñar que estos sean aprendidos por las demás generaciones. Así mismo, se entregará a cada integrante de la familia polos con sus nombres, gorras y una foto familiar al culminar todas las actividades. Las fuerzas están enfocadas en cubrir segmentos A B Zona 6 de Lima Metropolitana quienes están dispuestos a recibir nuestro proyecto dentro de sus actividades familiares. La idea de negocio nace a partir de la necesidad de las familias en compartir tiempo de calidad con los integrantes de las familias mediante juegos retros, los cuales hacían que las familias se unan y compartan tiempo tanto adultos como con los niños. Hemos logrado obtener la información a partir de un estudio realizado en nuestro segmento AB zona 6 Lima Metropolitana, estos estudios nos han permitido evidenciar la viabilidad del proyecto. La estructura del trabajo es como sigue, desde el planeamiento estratégico, plan de Marketing, plan de Operaciones, y el plan económico con horizontes de análisis a tres años. / The purpose of this research project is to sustain and validate the implementation of our family integration service based on activities based on retro games which provide alternatives for family sharing. Diverti Family, is the best option to unite families, with quality time and that through the value of our proposal transcends in time. It will also allow to evoke retro games which you can choose according to your preferences, and also povides a big opportunity to take advantage of these fun moments to promote that these games are embraced by new generations. Likewise, each member of the family will be given t-shirts with their names, caps and a family photo at the end of all activities. Our efforts are focused on covering A and B segments from 6th Zone of Metropolitan Lima, who seem open to try our proposal within their family activities. The business idea was born from the need of families on sharing quality time with family members through retro games, which made families unite and share time between adults and children. This information has been obtained from the study carried out on A and B segments from 6th Zone of Metropolitan Lima, which has allowed us to demonstrate the viability of the project. The structure of the work starts from the Strategic Planning, followed by a Marketing plan, an Operations plan, and an Economic plan with a three-year horizon analysis. / Trabajo de investigación

This thesis presents the results of a historical investigation of the arrival and presence of Vietnamese immigrants in Prague between 1974 and 1993. Methodologically, the research is based on interviews with witnesses of the program of socialist internationalism and on the study of the Czechoslovak government administrative documents from the period between 1974, ie. the year the signing of the Agreement between the Government Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam about employing Vietnamese citizens in Czechoslovak organizations1 , with a milestone in 1989 as the collapse of the communist regime, and the year 1993, as the separation of Slovakia and the establishment of an independent Czechoslovak Republic This work is not only based on the assumption that this program influenced the integration of the first generation in Czechoslovak society, but it also shows an indirect influence on the second generation coming after the Velvet Revolution, due to the program's effect on the emergence of Vietnamese social networks. The research aims to uncover the factors that influence the adaptation of the first and second generations in the majority environment and to indicate the effect that the normative framework of the program had on the formation of ethnic social networks. It...