geschenkt, um ihn schließlich mit unterschiedlichen Abhängigkeits- und Interpretationsmodellen zu konfrontieren und Antwort auf die Frage zu suchen, wie sich die kulturellen Erscheinungsformen des Anderen und Fremden aus polnischer und deutscher Perspektive positioniert bzw. verändert haben. The 2015 immigration wave, including mostly migrants from the regions of Middle East and North Africa, was followed by a heated discussion among politicians, journalists, publicists, and representatives of the academic community. The formation of a new discourse was accompanied by a more or less conspicuous intention to assume a role of representatives of the Old Continent. Furthermore, one could observe attempts to substantively describe - yet not without an emotional overtone - the new social-political reality and its dynamic changes taking place under the influence of external impulses. This volume starts with a general outlook on the phenomenon of homeliness and otherness and the related cultural and historical contexts just to subsume the notions within a network of interrelations and interpretative models that are being outlined from a perspective of Poland and Germany with a specific focus to take the 'migration crisis' and its strength of impact into consideration.