Migration and the status of 'stranger' in a homologously interpreted local space

ehT aim of this article is empirical exploration of the dependence of the status of a 'stranger' on the local and social context. In that context s/he acts as a partici of migration process that represents dynamics of the locally relativised attrib of the environment / 'localisation'. eTh thesis statement concerns the interference of constitutive ecological, organizational, cultural and symbolic dimensions i the social space. uThs the paper verifies validity of the subsequent hypotheses that 'environment' (coexistent attributes, fields, characteristics) that constitute the confi uration of the 'homological structures' as defined by Pierre Bourdieu and specific for particular local communities inuflences perception and attitude towards a strang ehT operationalisation of such complex constructs, along with the contextualisation o the migration phenomenon involving the stranger-environment relationship, leads t the adoption of an interdisciplinary research perspective that in addition to sociol includes geographic economy, demography and spatial statistics. eTh analysis of the aforementioned dependencies requires a multi-source database from various survey and administrative data (the Local Data Bank of the Statistics Poland). eTh result of the analyses confirm that the main determinant of the attitude towards a stran (as a migrant) and their status in the changing environment is the local social spa (interpreted in a homologous way).