Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska- Dr hab
- Professor at University of Warsaw
Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska
- Dr hab
- Professor at University of Warsaw
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The article applies the concept of anchoring, defined as the process of searching for footholds and points of reference which allows individuals to acquire socio-psychological stability and security and function effectively in a new environment, to explore complex, multidimensional and flexible adaptation and settlement processes among migrants fro...
The article presents the emergent concept of social anchoring. The proposed concept represents a new theoretical approach to analysing the notions of identity and social integration in contemporary increasingly super-diverse and ‘fluid’ societies. The conceptual framework of anchoring links the issues of identity, security and integration. It enabl...
This paper analyses the adaptation strategies of Vietnamese and Ukrainian immigrants having permit for settlement in Poland and settled in Warsaw and its vicinity (namely in the Mazowieckie province), with an emphasis on the relationship between the cultural, social and economic dimensions of adaptation. The research showed that due to the large cu...
Although Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is sometimes referred to as a buffer zone (Iglicka 2001) because of its location between the huge Asian continent and Western Europe, it is also an area of intense and diverse migration flows both internal and external. In a broader sense, the region of Central and Eastern Europe may include countries of th...
This article analyses the appearance and expansion of Polish irregular workers on the Belgian labour market. It discusses the development of the Polish migrant ‘community’. The problem is considered by examining the quantitative and qualitative transformations of migratory networks as well as changes in strategies of accumulation of various types o...
Embedded within the conceptual framework of 'irregularity assemblage', this report focuses on 'the production of irregularities' in the context of migration, aiming to illuminate its complexity from the perspective of the national policy level in Poland. Drawing on our qualitative empirical material and secondary data, this report explains the comp...
How do institutional stakeholders and community activists differ in their perception of their agency to affect change? We explore this question by synthesising Archer’s theory of structure–agency dynamics’ and Easterly’s development models as it is now, and debates on the ‘just city’ to explore narratives around urban transformation in data from tw...
In this paper, we bring together two concepts that we have been developing separately over recent years, to challenge linear and simplistic notions of migrant integration, depict multi-dimensional processes of settling and changeability over time. The concept of embedding has been proposed to capture dynamism beyond the more static notion of Granov...
The Brexit referendum has led to uncertainty, which has threatened EU migrants’ resources, including their rights to reside, to run a business or access welfare. Cross-national political and legal resources that include citizenship rights can enable migrants’ access to health care, pensions, education and other welfare benefits, but these remain fa...
Drawing on interviews with 40 Polish migrants in the UK, ethnographic and autobiographical research, the article applies the concept of anchoring to theorise the flexibility of migrants’ adaptation and ‘settlement’. Simultaneity, multidimensionality and changeability of anchoring and the reverse processes of un-anchoring are examined here to bridge...
This article uses the author’s original concept of social anchoring, referring to the processes of finding significant footholds which enable migrants to acquire socio-psychological stability and security and function effectively in new life settings, to theorise adaptation and ‘settlement’ mechanisms that are utilised by migrants. Drawing on inter...
This article outlines key arguments and contributions pertaining to new perspectives on the adaptation and settlement of migrants under conditions of superdiversification and ongoing migration ‘crisis’. We seek to re-ignite interest in the development of the concept of integration and to stimulate theoretical and research advancement beyond the nor...
The arrival of superdiversity raises a wide range of methodological issues that warrant further consideration by social researchers conducting research in superdiverse contexts. The complex multi-layering of population settlement that has emerged due to successive waves of migration means that identities, lived experience and access to services inc...
Repatriation remains an unsolved problem of Polish migration policy. To date, it has taken place on a small scale, mostly outside of the state’s repatriation system. Thousands of people with a promised repatriation visa are still waiting to be repatriated. The majority of the repatriates come from Kazakhstan, home to the largest population of desce...
The paper looks at the selected issues related to the asylum seekers in Poland. The first section is devoted to legal basis for protection (both international and domestic regulations), its various forms, as well as assistance granted to the foreign nationals seeking asylum. Next, the authors present statistics on the scale of the phenomenon and di...
Integracja imigrantów wiąże się nie tylko z takimi elementami, jak postawy i relacje migrantów z członkami społeczeństwa przyjmującego, ale także z ich wchodzeniem w strukturę społeczną, czyli osiąganiem określonego statusu społecznego. W procesie tym bardzo ważną rolę odgrywają nieformalne i formalne sieci powiązań tworzące kapitał społeczny migra...
Artykuł prezentuje przegląd i analizę nowych socjologicznych teorii migracji i integracji, rozwiniętych od lat dziewięćdziesiątych XX wieku, do których należą: transnarodowość, płynne migracje, migracje niepełne oraz nowe koncepcje wielokulturowości, asymilacji, integracji i adaptacji do przestrzeni transnarodowych. Autorka postuluje i uzasadnia po...
Tekst prezentuje propozycję nowej koncepcji społecznego zakotwiczenia, która redefiniuje problem relacji między jednostką a społeczeństwem oraz próbuje odpowiedzieć na pytanie, co stanowi spoiwo współczesnego społeczeństwa. Pracę rozpoczynają rozważania nad znaczeniem tożsamości dla analiz współczesnego społeczeństwa i przyczyną problematyczności p...
This article presents a review and analysis of the new sociological theories of migration and integration that have developed since the 1990s, including transnationalism, liquid migration and incomplete migration, as well as new concepts of multiculturalism, assimilation, integration and adaptation to transnational spaces. The paper postulates and...
This chapter is about the level of tolerance of dual citizenship and its determinants in Poland, an emigration country. We argue that, even though dual citizenship does exist in Poland, we cannot state with certainty that it is generally accepted. Tolerance applies to selected groups not including, in fact, immigrants. Formally, this tolerance is e...
So far immigration to Poland can be described by its amorphous nature characteristic of the period of transition between the first and second stages of the immigration process. In the first stage a highly dynamic and irregular inflow of immigrants (irregular, short-term, and transit migration) prevails accompanied by a lack of state immigration pol...
The text presents the analysis of representations of immigrants published in the period 1993–2003 in the largest dailies in Poland. The analysed material allows the identification of four main discourses, which can be described as separate and relatively coherent systems of statements on immigrants, characterized by their argumentation structure an...
The purpose of this article is an analysis of the cultural integration of the Ukrainian and Vietnamese immigrants who have the right of residence in Poland and of their strategy for adaption. The subject of the survey included such issues as the attitudes of the immigrants to their own culture and to Polish culture; the degree of cultural integrati...
Celem niniejszego tekstu jest analiza wzorów osiedlania się imigrantów w aglomeracji warszawskiej,
a zwłaszcza na terenie samego miasta Warszawy. Przedmiotem analizy jest: wyłanianie
się potencjalnych skupisk miejsc zamieszkiwania imigrantów i ich związek z innymi typami koncentracji
imigrantów; czynniki determinujące miejsce zamieszkania i funkcjo...
Polish immigration policy has been evolving in response to international events and agreements, and service provision to immigrants and refugees reflect the fact that Poland actively supports neither multiculturalism nor interculturalism. Polish policy towards immigrants can rather be described as “assimilation via abandonment.”
This article briefl...
The article aims at showing the nature of sociological discourse analysis and establishing its specificity in view of other kinds of research regarding it. The text opens with the presentation of the multiplicity of discourse definitions, which stem from various scholarly disciplines. That leads the Author to the conclusion that discourse analysis...
