Karolina Barglowski

University of Luxembourg

Life sciences are becoming increasingly important to understanding the world and epistemology, but their path to fulfillment remains problematic. The male-dominated network, systematically embedded across all societal institutions, has manifested through various economic and political phenomena over historical periods, and more recently through bio...

Transnational class formation has been a subject of considerable interest in recent years. This article provides the theoretical and thematic framework to the special theme on ‘Transnational class formation: identities, practices and symbolic classifications’ and presents a review of current literature on transnational social classes, arguing that...

This article examines transnational social positioning through a family lens. Based on interviews with people who moved to Germany as young adults, we show that socialization and expectations in families coin individual understandings of success as an important baseline for social positioning, while migration challenges these understandings and soc...

This briefing outlines the German migration context and provides an overview of the vulnerabilities and heightened inequalities experienced by women engaged in international mobilities in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many existing inequalities and the persistent gaps of welfare systems in addressing the increasing vulnerabilities of particular migrant groups. In Germany, federal government has tackled the pandemic crisis primarily as a health crisis and secondly as an economic crisis. Although anti-pandemic measures, such as lo...

Migrant organizations MOs), as associations that are founded, managed, and led by people with migration biographies, have recently emerged as facilitators of social protection interventions. This article is devoted to this barely debated issue of MOs in the field of social protection, by emphasizing their role in facilitating the mobilization and a...

The links between integration and transnationalism have attracted considerable attention in the study of migration. In contributing to these debates, this article examines the increasingly diverse landscape of self- organizations of people with migratory biographies, the so-called migrant organizations (MOs), to show how these provide opportunities...

This article follows the recent ‘affective turn’ in social sciences and migration scholarship by analyzing the role of emotions in the handling of social risks by people with different migration biographies. The study is based on large-scale research with migrant organizations in Germany, which are important, though often neglected, sources of soci...

Die Landschaft der Migrantenorganisationen (MO) hat sich in den letzten Jahren deutlich verändert und ausdifferenziert. MO übernehmen zunehmend formelle und informelle Aufgaben der sozialen Sicherung. MO bieten eine Plattform für die Ausgestaltung bedarfsgerechter so-zialer Leistungen für wachsende migrantische Bevölkerungsteile. Passende Förderins...

This article contributes to the debates on migrant social protection assemblages by assessing enabling factors that provide migrants with opportunities to organise their social protection in changing environments. In‐depth interviews with migrants who use services from several migrant organisations (MOs) were conducted to study their largely neglec...

This paper considers migrant parenting as a dynamic project that entails interactions between social class, migration experiences, individual and collective beliefs, and transnational attachments. Previous research has examined migrant parenting predominantly concerning children’s social mobility in the immigration country by using the acculturatio...

Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous research has shown that migrants are particularly affected by challenges when accessing or providing social protection, because of unfamiliar we...

Social sciences face challenges in accounting for the various relational, personal, structural and cultural factors that shape trajectories of migration and settlement. This chapter suggests an analytical framework through which to explore these various dimensions from an actor-perspective. Commonly, the study on inequality of migrants focuses on t...

Culture nowadays is a key concept in migration scholarship. The notion of culture is used as a factor to make sense of migration patterns in communities with long-standing traditions of migration (“cultures of migration”). Culture also pertains to the products of migration as cultural representations of the acts of migration or the cultural shifts...

People make decisions in response to a variety of desires, resources and needs. And the same is obviously true for migration decisions. Although push-and-pull theories or neo-classical approaches to migration have been criticized for their simplifying view (Faist 2000, Castles et al. 2014), migration scholarship still tends to focus on one mostly i...

Social inequality is conventionally analysed with regard to the unequal distribution of valuable goods, status and resources in a given society and the differential opportunities of people as members of social groups to access these resources (Grusky 1994). The optic pursued in this book extends this understanding of inequality and social stratific...

The changes and continuities of migration from Poland to Germany are part and parcel of the intricacies in which cultural beliefs shape population movements, the formation of transnational spaces and social inequality. As has been detailed throughout this book, people migrate alongside historically established migratory paths with particular symbol...

The movement of people between the East and West is one of the defining features of European migration. It has significantly impacted the social, cultural and demographic landscape in many parts of Europe. Especially since the nineteenth and early twentieth century, migration increased considerably and became an economic strategy for many people ar...

Family life is inherently torn between a strong bond formed by being and belonging together and ongoing conflicts and tensions. As in all families, migrant families need to negotiate individual interests and the collective good as well as try to maintain cohesion, despite the sometimes-conflicting orientations of various family members. They are al...

The previous chapters have drawn attention to the ways in which cultural and transnational logics of moving and imaginaries of life in the West shape people’s mobility (Chapter 3) and their social relations (Chapter 4). It has been shown that respondents frame migration as a “normal” act. Such interpretations bind themselves to the dominant ideolog...

Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book explores the cultural and social patterns that shape people’s migration, the historical and contemporary patterns of their movement, and the manifold consequences of their migration for themselves and th...

Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book explores the cultural and social patterns that shape people’s migration, the historical and contemporary patterns of their movement, and the manifold consequences of their migration for themselves and th...

Upcoming Book in Routledge Research in Transnationalism! Cultures of Transnationality in European Migration. Subjectivity, Family and Inequality.

Care for young children continues to highly influence the life chances of men and women, even more so when they are migrants. For migrant women, childcare remains a particular challenge when their kin are absent and the gendered norms of work and family life abroad diverge from what they have known in the country of origin. This article contributes...

This chapter reviews key social science strategies for research on cross-border linkages and transnational migration and discusses its merits in empirical research on diaspora formation. As Roger Brubaker has noted, most early discussions on diaspora ‘were firmly rooted in a conceptual “homeland” ’ and were ‘concerned with a paradigmatic case, or a...

Although scholars consistently show that class-specific parenting, influenced by the resources parents have due to their socio-economic position, is one of the most important factors for children’s different life chances and outcomes as adults, migrants’ parenting is usually analysed with a focus on their ethnicity or country of origin. Building on...

Case selection, or sampling, is central for social scientific knowledge production, as the question of which people or incidents to include in a study largely influences the validity and generalization of results. In contrast to random methods of sampling, the purposive character of case selection in qualitative re-search requires researchers refle...

This article is about ‘coming out’ and the process of disclosure of queer migrants within their transnational families. Despite debates about the decreasing relevance of coming out in contemporary western societies, we argue that the process of coming out continues to be a central mode of belonging and identity construction for queers in the contex...

This article scrutinizes the mobility regime of the EU by focusing on the challenges to belonging, which are incremental, but often neglected, aspects of the expansion of mobility rights. Based on a qualitative study of migration between Poland and Germany, one of the worlds’ most vivid and historically rooted migration spaces, I will argue that th...

Transnational social spaces are multidimensional in terms of the socio-spatial categories – that is, local, global, and national – and different actors and institutions involved. Recent developments in transnational methodology argue for a thorough reflection on the challenges of methodological nationalism, essentialism, and researchers' positional...

Transnational caregiving has recently provoked a number of studies on the impact of migration on the reorganisation of care arrangements, family dynamics, and gender roles. Yet, the literature on transnational caregiving rarely discusses the ambivalences which migrants encounter in the provision of care. Twenty interviews with migrants from Poland...

How migrants organise their social protection is not a straightforward process but, rather, a much more intricate and nuanced one, which takes into account the manifold state regulations, supranational frameworks and civil society organisations, as well as the migrants themselves and their significant others spread across various state borders. Thi...

Social protection is an assemblage of informal and formal elements. These opposites – ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ – have been a feature of social policy discourse for a long time. Here, informal social protection is taken as that provided by interpersonal networks, whereas formal social protection is conceptualised as being provided by the state and or...

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