This paper explores what kind of transnational connections are forged by the first-generation Polish immigrants living in New York City. The focal point of interest are processes involved in building and sustaining immigrants’ attachements to the country of origin. Given the fact that ‘everyday transnational practices are not neatly compartmentalized, and nor are their consequences’ , an attempt to make them fit into separate units of analysis is a difficult and, in fact, pointless task. The author shall then show how interconnected and interwoven with each other they are.

This paper was presented at the Workshop on Developments and Patterns of Migration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe, 25 to 27 August 2005, Prague.