Karolina Łukasiewicz

University of Warsaw | UW · Centre of Migration Research

The article aims at analyzing Polish migration policy and in particular, an access to education system for children migrants in refugee centers and detention centers. In recent years, much has been written about Polish migration policy (e.g., Kicinger 2009; Górny, Grabowska-Lusińska, Lesińska, Okólski 2011; KicingerKoryś 2011, Okólski 2012) as we...

More than 90% of foreign nationals who apply to obtain the refugee status in Poland are Chechens, which is about 6 000 applications per year. Only about 280 are recognized as refugees, 1 700 Chechens receive ‘the permit for tolerated stay’. The permit may cause some social marginalization. Still more then 4 000 Chechens’ applications are ‘dismissed...

The article assesses local welfare systems' (LWS) responses to the needs of marginalized migrants in four Global North cities (Stockholm, Berlin, London and New York) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on 95 interviews with low-income migrants and other stakeholders, we analyze the structure of local service demand and supply; and the...

Since the end of World War II, the international system seeking to protect forcibly displaced people has evolved to currently include 147 states and multiple non-state actors responding together to the needs of an increasingly diverse population of over 86.5 million people. This chapter discusses the root causes of forced displacement, provides a h...

Local welfare systems response to migrant poverty in Berlin, Stockholm, London and New York City. LocMig Project about the local welfare system response to migrant poverty. Although most migrants in Europe and the U.S. are more active in the labour market than nationals, they are overrepresented among people struggling with poverty. Nearly half of...

Migration scholars frequently view cities as innovative and efficient in responding to their immigrant communities’ needs. At the same time, the risks of the decentralisation of integration policies and how they operate on the ground remain overlooked. This study critically analyses the structure of demand and supply of immigrant integration polici...

The aging immigrant population in affluent Western countries is rapidly growing. In the United States, the largest share of older adults is in this population of European immigrants, however, a handful of studies focus on this group. This article aims at filling this gap by analyzing data based on thirty-two interviews with aging Polish immigrants...

A lack or low level of social capital is associated with negative outcomes for communities impacted by poverty. However, less is known about how different types of social capital operate on the ground in poverty‐impacted urban neighborhoods. This article explores the ways in which bonding, bridging, and linking capital manifest among residents of t...

It has been argued that individuals living in poverty are shamed, and thus, experience it in various social and institutional spaces. However, little is known about this dynamic in the United States. This study examined the relationship between poverty and shame among individuals living in poverty. Individual semistructured interviews were conducte...

Poverty is a well-known short-term outcome of migration in general and a long-term outcome of forced migration in a global context. Surprisingly, this outcome appears among refugees in welfare states which provide various asylum and social policies facilitating integration. The article aims to explore the relationship between asylum and social poli...

The aim of the chapter is to present the lessons learnt from the application of the configurational method to the evaluation of the “SPIN” public regional program. The objective of this complex program was to increase the intensity of knowledge transfer (KT) between universities and enterprises. After pilot implementation of the Model, there was a...

Over the next four decades, the global urban population is expected to nearly double, with the vast majority of this happening in Asian and African cities; if we do not rethink and coalesce our approaches and practices, there will be rising urban inequality and conflicts, underpinned by accelerated resource scarcity and uncontainable environmental...

The aim of the paper is to present the lessons learnt from the “SPIN” regional public project. The project was implemented in the region of Lesser Poland. The objective of the project was to increase the intensity of knowledge transfer from universities to enterprises. The goal was achieved by establishing four Centres for Knowledge Transfer at maj...

Sieci współpracy biznesu, nauki i samorządu w obszarach: inteligentne sieci energetyczne, budownictwo energooszczędne, biotechnologia oraz medycyna translacyjna Raport z badania prowadzonego w ramach projektu "SPIN-Model transferu innowacji w Małopolsce"

The article aims at analyzing Polish migration policy and in particular, an access to education system for children migrants in refugee centers and detention centers. In recent years, much has been written about Polish migration policy (e.g., Kicinger 2009; Górny, Grabowska-Lusińska, Lesińska, Okólski 2011; KicingerKoryś 2011, Okólski 2012) as well...

It is the aim of the article to depict the design and implementation of organizational innovation: Model SPIN. Model was tested at universities in Małopolska voivodship. It is based on the establishment and development of Knowledge Centers dedicated to the specific fields of technology (biotechnology, smart grids, green building, translational medi...

The most developed and competing world economies are knowledge-based. Poland attempts to introduce such an economy on a national and a local level. Despite rising expenditures on research and development and a growing number of persons employed in research and development sectors of market, transfer of knowledge is still very low. Research results...

There is a dilemma concerning the goal of research in social sciences. Conducting democratising and action research stresses the importance of educating the society giving the defavorised groups certain level of empowerment. Nonetheless, some researchers believe that a research process should be free from any other goals than cognitive ones in orde...

This paper has been developed in the framework of a larger research program, in which the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Tsinghua University and Yangzhou University are jointly involved to study and preserve historic towers. Cultural heritage is the intangible and tangible attributes of a society, including the natural heritage, that are inherit...