an Obama Programme scholar, co-founder of the Migrant Women’s Library project, and currently CEO of the Immigrant Council of Ireland.
(Full version of the interview to listen to in the Radio Cenzura archive)
KAsia Mikołajczyk: A very warm welcome to our broadcast and, at the same time, to the pages of our first issue. Portraits of Emigration. This magazine is dedicated to the emigration experiences of Polish women and men in Ireland. Previously, I spoke with Krystyna Pycińska-Taylor – a representative of the older generation of emigrants. With you, I would like to speak as a representative of the younger generation – although I know you've been in Ireland for twenty years already!
Teresa Buczkowska: I'm very pleased that you call me the young generation, but I no longer feel that way myself (laughs). It's the generations after us that can be described as young. Indeed – twenty years is a lot. It's no longer the beginning of emigration, but not yet the oldest generation either – rather something in between.
So let's start from the beginning. What motivated you to leave?
I come from Podkarpacie. At the beginning of the 2000s, unemployment there was enormous, and there were practically no prospects after university. I studied social anthropology and geography – beautiful subjects, but not very practical...
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