Ar vaikas išgyvena krizę? : tyrinėjant laikinosios darbo migracijos įtaką vaikui

Abstract

The article introduces and analyses the peculiarities of the impact of temporary labour migration on a child in Lithuania. Temporary labour migration is a specific form of migration when one or both parents go to work abroad leaving their nuclear family. This topic received little attention for two reasons: the impact of illegal migration on a family when information about a person who left illegally was concealed, and the scholarly tradition to analyse migration from macro perspectives. The article deals from an analytical perspective with a child's experiences after his/her parents left to work abroad. According to the theories of attachment and children in crises, the hypothesis that all preteen children whose parents work abroad had to experience a crisis was proposed. To support the hypothesis, data from the quantitative research study Trends and Peculiarities of Labour Emigration in Kaunas as well as those from a structurized interview with 15 kindergarten teachers were used.