Straipsnis skirtas Amerikos lietuvių kultūrinio atsparumo ir transnacionalinių ryšių sklaidai kintančių geopolitinių aplinkybių fone parodyti. Beveik 600 tūkstančių JAV gyvenančių Amerikos lietuvių yra reikšminga platesnės lietuvių diasporos dalis. Priešingai asimiliacijos naratyvui, dažnai siejamam su JAV „lydymosi katilu“, lietuviai Amerikoje išlaikė savitą ir atsparią kultūrinę tapatybę, nors didžioji dauguma (94 %) gimė Jungtinėse Amerikos Valstijose. Autorės siekė ištirti individualias ir kolektyvines Amerikos lietuvių perspektyvas dvigubos tautinės tapatybės, šeimos istorijos, tradicinių papročių ir geopolitinių įvykių temomis. Pripažindamos patirčių, susiformavusių per kelias migracijos bangas, įvairovę, tyrėjos atrinko penkiolika emigracijos bangų ir amžiaus grupių Amerikos lietuvių, palaikančių stiprius šeiminius ryšius su Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų Vidurio Vakarų regionu, ir 2022–2023 m. atliko pusiau struktūruotus interviu. Straipsnyje palyginami ir sugretinami tyrimo dalyvių požiūriai į įvairias emigracijos bangas ir kartas. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidžia, kad, nepaisydami laiko tėkmės, Amerikos lietuviai puoselėja ir išreiškia savo savitą kultūrinę tapatybę, pasididžiavimą ir ryšį su Lietuva. Mokslininkams, kurie tyrinėja kintančią šiuolaikinės lietuvių diasporos mozaiką, ši studija gali būti vertinga dėl tyrimo dalyvių ir autorių įžvalgų apie kultūros išsaugojimo ir adaptacijos diasporos bendruomenėse įvairiapusiškumą.

A family emigrating with their school-age children to a foreign country faces a task as important as finding a job and a place to stay: that of enrolling their children in school. This article analyzes the experiences that families which have emigrated from Lithuania with their children have had in finding schools and learning in them. It is the author’s contention that for Lithuanian immigrant families establishing themselves in a new land the school performs the function of a mediator between the broader society, the neighborhood (or the Lithuanian ethnic community), and the family. The school becomes a mirror of the new country’s cultural and social norms and values, and at the same time it serves as a bridge to a successful and ever more complete integration into that country’s society.

Observing the process of re-emigration now intensifying in Lithuania as those who’ve emigrated less or more than ten years ago are increasingly returning to Lithuania with their families and children born either in Lithuania or abroad, the authors of this article tried to look at the experiences and needs of children taken back to Lithuania. What difficulties are faced by these children, their parents, and their teachers? How do adults-- the parents and the teachers--evaluate the needs of the children during this period of their adaptation to the country of their parents? What are the stories the children themselves tell of their experiences in school? The research was conducted in the Šėltinis school in the city of Šiauliai. In this school there is an intensive process of integrating children into the new country and new culture; here the new values are transmitted not only in the teaching process, but also through the fostering of communication between student and teacher, and between the children and the school and family.

Interest in the changes undergone by a community affected to a large extent by international migration was sparked in the course of carrying out the project "Tomorrow began yesterday" in the summer of 2004 in a small town of central Lithuania. Using the methods of social antropology, the authors together with the inhabitants of the community attempted to determine the contours of the community's everyday life, marked as it was by social and economic transformations. This article presents the initial results of research undertaken in 2006 and 2007 by the Social Economics Institute on the international migration of members of rustic communities.[...].

Socialinis Bažnyčios mokymas – sistemingai plėtota visuomeninė socialinė doktrina – kilo iš Bažnyčios rūpinimo-si žmogumi. Pal. J. Matulaičio gyvenamuoju laikotarpiu pasirodė pirmoji socialinė enciklika, todėl jis ypač stengėsi atsižvelgti į to meto iššūkius Bažnyčiai ir spręsti to meto socialines problemas. Daugelis jo idėjų tuo metu buvo itin pažangios. Socialinio Bažnyčios mokymo sklaida aktuali ir šiais laikais, tad pravartu apžvelgti pal. J. Matulaičio socialinę veiklą.

The article discusses the relationship between national identity and skilled labor migration: how present-day emigrants working in skilled labor jobs create and maintain their national identity and seek either to preserve it or to renounce it. How do the position of emigrants in foreign labor markets, their social networks in Lithuania and the foreign country they work in, and their plans for the future reflect the strategies and concepts of construing national identity? An analysis of data collected in research done in 2011 showed that skilled labor migrants practiced their Lithuanianness largely through ties with their relatives and friends living in Lithuania. Seeking to preserve the employment position they have secured abroad and improve their qualifications, emigrants have limited opportunities to join official and non-official networks of Lithuanians living abroad; and while working mainly in an international labor pool they experience a lack of Lithuanian social relations.