‘White Dress, Guests and Presents’: Polish Migrant Families’ Practice of First Communion and Negotiation of Catholic Identities in Wales

This article examines how migration to Wales modifies Polish Catholic families’ religious practices. It focuses on how the First Communion ceremony is performed. Within the Polish migrant community I witnessed three distinct ways of arranging this. Some families travelled to Poland to their parish c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aleksandra Kaczmarek-Day
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and Polish Academy of Sciences 2018-12-01
Series:Central and Eastern European Migration Review
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Online Access:http://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/Kaczmarek-Day_Polish_Migrant_Families%E2%80%99_Practice.pdf