BABICCY AMERYKANIE – DAWNIEJ I DZIŚ

Babica is one of the Subcarpathian villages from which, at the turn of the century, the first streams of migration to the United States began to flow. Emigration from this village rapidly became a common phenomenon. Krystyna Duda-Dziewierz, sociologist, decided to study the process. The research was conducted during the interwar period, and the results published in 1938 in a book entitled „The Malopolska village and the emigration to the U.S. A study of Babica village in Rzeszow Poviat1”. The study is one of the best papers describing the emigration of Polish rural people. Today, travel to the U.S. is still very popular and occupies an import ant place in the life of this community. A century of emigration in an almost unchanged direction owes its continuity to the dense social networks and migration chains which have developer since the first emigrants. The article compares the migration of contemporary Babica inhabitants to emigration from the beginning of the previous century