In migration research, the voice is usually given to those who move, but in this article, those who stay are at the centre of attention. The study aims to present the stayers’ practices of everyday life in transnational families in an attempt to highlight the experience of staying and understand the stayers’ role in the migration project. The study is based on semi-structured life story interviews conducted in 2020 with people who in the 1980s stayed in the northeastern part of Poland when their relatives migrated internationally. In the almost four-decade perspective, staying appears as a powerful condition and an active process, closely interrelated with migration. Also, the migration project does not appear dependent so much on the range and availability of communication technologies – limited in the 1980s – but on transnational families’ engagement in that project and desire to accomplish it.

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跨国家庭：从一生的角度看波兰居留者的经历

在移民研究中，声音通常给予那些搬家的人，但在本文中，那些留下来的人成为关注的焦点。该研究旨在呈现留守者在跨国家庭中的日常生活实践，试图突出留守经历并了解留守者在移民项目中的角色。这项研究基于 2020 年对 20 世纪 80 年代亲属移居国外时留在波兰东北部的人们进行的半结构化生活故事访谈。从近四个十年的角度来看，停留似乎是一个强有力的条件和一个积极的过程，与移民密切相关。还，