Magdalena Nowicka

DeZIM. Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung · Integration

This working paper provides the theoretical reflections and research objectives of the ongoing project Transforming Migration: Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus. It develops the proposal of applying Bourdieu’s theory of practice in studying intercultural skills of migrants and the mechanisms of their transfer to the space of origin of...

The Brexit referendum was an earthquake to those in otherwise privileged positions: white intra-European migrants. Poles form the largest among these groups in the UK. As much as they are vulnerable to discrimination as non-British citizens, these migrants benefit from their whiteness and European heritage. They are objects of anti-immigrant campai...

This contribution looks back at the last years of the conviviality debate which attempts to grasp the chimerical nature of mundane human encounters. It uses the term ‘fantasy’ to point to how conviviality emerges in the literature as an imaginary of the relationship between me/us and them/others. It argues that this imaginary is embedded in the Wes...

The arrival of refugees from predominantly Muslim countries in the core of Europe has fuelled discussions on European solidarity. This article explores the sources of solidarity in Europe in the aftermath of the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015. By focusing on migrants’ attitudes towards refugees, the article considers solidarity in light of contradictory...

Transnationalism as a perspective that scrutinizes localities in more than one nationstate has helped to illuminate those aspects of lives of migrants that remain hidden when migration is seen through the lens of conventional migration theory. Social connectivity provides a context in which effects of migration can be studied. Yet reducing transnat...

Homes are spaces permeated by global flows. Homes of international migrants anchor objects and people with their norms, values and ideas that originate in different countries. From an auto-ethnographic perspective, I scrutinize selected objects in my own flat to ask what a transnational perspective can tell us about home spaces in the globalized co...

Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition i...

The COVID19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine give us a cause to reflect about mobility, inequality and future of work. Restrictions on movement demonstrated that foreign workers are indispensable to the functioning of the many sectors of economy, with tangible effects in the everyday life. Also, the pandemic revealed that the burdens of (im)mobility...

In Deutschland werden viele Haushalte bei der Betreuung älterer Angehöriger durch osteuropäische Betreuungskräfte unterstützt. Die Betreuung basiert dabei auf einem transnationalen Rotationssystem (zirkuläre Migration): Die Betreuer*innen arbeiten in Tandems und wechseln sich bei der zu leistenden Betreuung ab. Wenn eine Betreuungskraft nach Hause...

This chapter engages with seeing as a socio-cultural process and asks if it is possible to see beyond established categories. Nowicka illustrates how people struggle to order others into neatly delineated groups related to their gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. Drawing on research from cognitive science and philosophy, the chapter investigat...

Racism has largely been absent from political, popular and scientific debates in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Various authors point to the lack of a colonial tradition in the region, and thus the absence of a larger black population. In turn, they argue, anti-black attitudes could not flourish, so racism is a problem of post-colonial countries...

Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition i...

In the conclusion of Revisualising Intersectionality , Nowicka and Haschemi Yekani underscore the need for a transdisciplinary revision of the visual anchoring of difference in scientific knowledge production. In cognitive and psychological research, the habitual use of gender or race as categories that can be accessed by relying on visual inputs n...

The introduction to Revisualising Intersectionality explains the proposal for a revisualising of intersectionality as a double strategy of revising intersectionality and infusing it with a stronger focus on visual perceptions of similarity and difference to understand social stratification and inequality. Haschemi Yekani and Nowicka briefly situate...

Representative studies in Germany show that young migrants have more negative attitudes toward homo-sexual people than those without migration experience. This difference is often explained in public and scientific debates by their religious beliefs. Current international research seeks to better understand the re-lationship between religious affil...

n the German public discourse, young migrants and people of migrant descent are often associated with re-ligious fanatism, troubled families, violence and patriarchal gender relations. However, there is a lack of re-search that systematically investigates the ideas of young people of migrant descent regarding these issues and provides empirical evi...

As COVID-19 puts older people in long-term institutional care at the highest risk of infection and death, the need for home-based care has increased. Germany relies largely on migrant caregivers from Poland. Yet the pandemic-related mobility restrictions reveal the deficiencies of this transnational elder care system. This article asks if this syst...

Deutschland bekennt sich zur interkulturellen Öffnung des öffentlichen Dienstes. Bisher wird der Öffnungsgrad mithilfe der Kategorie „Migrationshintergrund“ gemessen. Gleichzeitig wird die Abschaffung dieser Kategorie gefordert und darauf hingewiesen, dass sie nicht geeignet ist, rassistische Diskriminierungen zu bekämpfen. Der Beitrag fasst den Di...

Deutschland bekennt sich zur interkulturellen Öffnung der öffentlichen Verwaltung, doch diskutiert weiter über Instrumente und Kategorien. Deshalb wird in diesem Beitrag der Blick auf ausgewählte Länder gerichtet und gefragt, ob und wie Deutschlandähnliche Maßnahmen übernehmen und anwenden könnte. Die Beispiele zeigen: Ohne politischen Willen geht...

Kurzfassung zur Studie Wohlfahrtspflegerische Leistungen von säkularen Migranten organisationen in Deutschland, unter Berücksichtigung der Leistungen für Geflüchtete https://www.dezim-institut.de/fileadmin/Publikationen/Briefing_Notes/210301_DBN_05_dt_final.pdf

The power of nationalism is evident in how people perceive the world around them as ‘normal’. A national normality is constituted through education and media but also in everyday encounters with the state or state-regulated institutions in the fields of education, welfare provisions, medical care, finance and others. When people migrate between cou...

This article analyzes migrant narratives on masculinity through an intersectional perspective that is sensitive to spatial aspects. Drawing on research with migrants in Berlin and Munich in Germany, we unpack how (self-identified) Polish men negotiate their gender identity vis-à-vis other people in these cities whom they perceive as ethnic, religio...

This reference book provides the reader with an exhaustive array of epistemological, theoretical, and empirical explorations related to the field of cosmopolitanism studies. It considers the cosmopolitan perspective rather as a relevant approach to the understanding of some major issues related to globalization than as a subfield of global studies....

In this chapter, the conjuncture of British austerity politics, the Brexit vote and migrants’ perceptions of both are scrutinized. The author draws her insights from a longitudinal study among Polish migrants in London and Birmingham.While analysing migrants’ perceptions of austerity politics and the Brexit vote, this chapter also looks at their pa...

The Brexit vote and its results have become a key theme in European media, and countless experts and journalists have shared their opinions on the reasons behind Brexit and its possible effects. Scholars soon followed with analyses that led to one conclusion: Brexit resulted from a “toxic mix of immigration and austerity” (Gietel-Basten, 2016). Yet...

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

The institutionalized inclusion of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in state social policy is not only a special feature of the political system in Germany, but is also seen as a model of success. This study examines social services provided by migrant organizations in terms of their scope, quality, and the conditions of provision.

Die Babyboomer-Generation wird ab Ende 2019 in Rente gehen. Damit öffnet sich ein Zeitfenster für Vielfalt in der öffentlichen Verwaltung: Behörden können durch Neueinstellungen ihren Beschäftigtenanteil mit Migra-tionshintergrund erhöhen und einen Beitrag zu Reprä-sentanz und Teilhabe von Zugewanderten und ihren Nachkommen leisten. Die Studie Ein...

Im Folgenden möchte ich drei miteinander verzahnte Aspekte des Kosmopolitismus- Konzeptes beleuchten, die mit der Mobilität – der physischen und intellektuellen Reise – zu tun haben: Trespassing, Transgressing und Transcending. Die englischen Begriffe deuten auf das Prozessuale hin: Trespassing als ein Prozess des Überschreitens der Grenzen, des Ei...

Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion. Yet diversity is also a mundane social reality in urban neighbourhoods. With this in mind, Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture explores how we can live together with and in difference. Wha...

Research encounters, in particular those that happen in the course of studies into migration-driven processes, are a particular form of such encounters with difference that carry a potential for conviviality, for they encourage research participants to negotiate their own and others’ belongings and mutual expectations regarding the outcomes of this...

The recent massive arrival of war refugees has challenged Europe’s political unity and fanned the flames of anti-Muslim populism. Both discourses have been framed in terms of ‘shifting solidarity’ between the European Union member states, their citizens and the refugees. At stake, the article argues, is the delineation of the collectivity linked by...

Policy Brief des SVR-Forschungsbereichs 2019-1 https://www.svr-migration.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SVR-FB_Politische_Selbstwirksamkeit.pdf

Driven by empathy with refugees’ condition and the desire to contribute to implementation of human rights in the everyday, volunteer local initiatives promise to make a real difference. While the proliferation of such initiatives is well documented, the processes of their institutional development are not. In this chapter, we trace the transformati...

Cross-border practices and structures are common and well described in research literature. However, there is no theory on transnationalism. This book proposes that transnationalism should be seen as an outcome of cross-border processes. Transnationalism is not congruent with structures, but focuses on what happens within those structures. This boo...

Cross-border practices and structures are common and well described in research literature. However, there is no theory on transnationalism. This book proposes that transnationalism should be seen as an outcome of cross-border processes. Transnationalism is not congruent with structures, but focuses on what happens within those structures. This boo...

Social sciences are interested in ethnic entrepreneurship as a chance for migrants to (better) integrate into the host labour market, and in consequence into a host society. Th e multidimen-sional models capture a wide range of factors at the bottom of the economic behaviour of migrant entrepreneurs, and they increasingly consider that migrants mig...

The Brexit referendum was an earthquake to those in otherwise privileged positions: white intra-European migrants. Poles form the largest among these groups in the UK. As much as they are vulnerable to discrimination as non-British citizens, these migrants benefit from their whiteness and European heritage. They are objects of anti-immigrant campai...

Ist das Konzept Postmigrantische Gesellschaft eine Zeitdiagnose, in der sich die Gesellschaft widerspiegelt? Wenn ja, was sehen wir, wenn wir durch die Brille dieser Zeitdiagnose die deutsche Gesellschaft betrachten? Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Postmigrantische Gesellschaft durch die Perspektive der Gegenwartsdiagnose als ein Genre an der Grenze...

Welche Rolle spielt die eigene Erfahrung als Migrant*in oder als Geflüchtete*r für die Motivation, den neuen Geflüchteten in Europa zu helfen? Sind „alte“ Migrant*innen solidarischer als Deutsche ohne Migrationshintergrund oder fürchten sie mehr als diese um ihre Arbeitsplätze und Sozialleistungen und lehnen deswegen die Aufnahme von Geflüchteten a...

Die „Flüchtlingskrise“ ist eine Krise der Solidarität, nicht der Zahlen, mahnte der UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-moon in Washington, D. C. im April 2016 (UN 2016). Er appellierte an die Länder Europas zu mehr politischer Einheit und erinnerte an die wahren Ursachen der Krise: die globale soziale und öko- nomische Ungleichheit und politische Marginalis...

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This article presents an inquiry into which tacit differences are relevant for how people make sense of encounters with others in urban settings, and how, if at all, they are translated into ethnic categories understood as ‘basic operators’ in everyday life. Drawing from our interviews with twenty Polish mothers living in Berlin and Munich, we argu...

This article has been included in Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal Recent Influential Papers collection. Check it out free until December 31st: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/ethnic-and-racial-studies-most-influential-papers-2020/ Thinking of racism through the lens of its geographies and temporality – a transnational lens, as I understand it...

Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit den Herausforderungen, denen Migrationsforschende begegnen, die selbst Migrantinnen und Migranten sind - also solche, die sich in der Position eines sogenannten Insiders befinden. Dieser Artikel bringt daher zwei Diskussionsstränge zusammen: die Literatur zur "Insider-Forschung" einerseits und die Debatte über di...

This contribution investigates the social distance of immigrants from Poland in four Western European cities – London, Birmingham, Berlin and Munich – sparticularly Polish immigrants’ distance towards members of ethnic, religious and sexual minorities in their various social roles. Presenting unique data from the first wave of a longitudinal qualit...

This panel session explores potentials of methodological innovations in migration research. This interests us from the perspective of the discussion on the shortcomings of methodological national and ethnic groupism. The research on hybrid identities, multi-language families, and 'third culture children' demonstrates the importance of 'spaces-in-be...

This chapter sets an analytical framework for researching social remittances in the context of global migration. It scrutinises the shortcomings of the literature in which the debate on social remittances is embedded—studies on social transformation, migrant transnationalism, and cultural diffusion. The authors suggest a framework that draws on the...

What happens when a person migrates? How does migration change this person, his/her way of doing and thinking about things? What if the new place of residence is very different from the place of origin of the migrant? And what if this difference is not only about how people do things but also about how they perceive differences in lifestyle, religi...

This editorial discusses the main strings of debates linking the discussions of insider research, gendered identities and concerns of methodological nationalism and groupism in migration studies. The insider/outsider dichotomy has been discussed in the academic literature for many years and in migration research this usually takes the form of ethni...

This editorial discusses the main strings of debates linking the discussions of insider research, gendered identities and concerns of methodological nationalism and groupism in migration studies. The insider/outsider dichotomy has been discussed in the academic literature for many years and in migration research this usually takes the form of ethni...

Few concepts enjoy as much popularity and are so controversial across the social sciences as cosmopolitanism. At its core, cosmopolitanism ...

From the wide range of problems facing the research on the social mobility of international migrants, I pick one issue which I think is of key importance. The research exclusively addresses the problem of deskilling – and, more broadly, of the integration of migrants – in the receiving context, taking skills as a fixed attribute of migrants. Drawin...

Notions of skill are geographically and historically specific; migration regimes, professional regulations and national policies influence possibilities of effective validation of migrant knowledge abroad. Migration scholars convincingly demonstrate how migrants actively circumvent national requirements to fit into the dominant culture of the socie...

Konventionelle Migrationsforschung beschäftigt sich oft, aber oft nur implizit, mit Scheitern. Während „Soziologie ihre Aufmerksamkeit eher auf Praktiken und Prozesse richtet, die weitgehend unproblematisch verlaufen – die Welt, die unspektakulär und gewöhnlich dennoch erfolgreich konstituiert wird“ (Malpas und Wickham, J Sociol 31:37–50, 1995), in...

Conviviality across a number of disciplines now conveys a deeper concern with the human condition and how we think about human modes of togetherness. This collection of essays illustrates some of the ways conviviality can be used as an analytical tool to ask and explore the ways and conditions for living together. This introduction surveys a number...

The article discusses how post-2004 Polish immigrants in Great Britain narrate success and failure in their lives. It identifies and analyses inter-related narrations specific to the transnational form of migration. It considers migrants’ transnational orientation as a resource for narratively producing a successful biography. The article makes use...

(Un)Fassbare Körper: Körper, die in der Öffentlichkeit zu Schau gestellt werden, die durch ihre "auffallende" Form und Größe im Raum präsent sind, die zum Gegenstand der Gespräche, Blicke und Nachfragen gestellt werden. Körper die andere anfassen, berühren und die so unfassbar anders geworden sind. Diese neue (un)fassbare Körperlichkeit erleben vie...

This article outlines the key challenges that face those researchers who study migrants and are migrants themselves. We discuss how critics of methodological nationalism have proposed a new research programme in migration studies, which centres on a critique of the naturalization of nation and ethnicity, and the insufficient consideration of territ...

The article discusses how post-2004 Polish immigrants in Great Britain narrate success and failure in their lives. It identifies and analyses inter-related narrations specific to the transnational form of migration. It considers migrants’ transnational orientation as a resource for narratively producing a successful biography. The article makes use...

This article presents an in-depth study of how Polish entrepreneurs in Munich, Germany, make use of their economic, social and cultural capital acquired in Poland and in Germany to position themselves transnationally. The article studies these migrants’ life courses and draws attention to cross-border intersections between their cultural, social an...

This article outlines the key challenges that face those researchers who study migrants and are migrants themselves. We discuss how critics of methodological nationalism have proposed a new research programme in migration studies, which centres on a critique of the naturalization of nation and ethnicity, and the insufficient consideration of territ...

My contribution studies in-depth how Polish entrepreneurs in Munich, Germany, make use of their economic, social, and cultural capital acquired in Poland and in Germany to position themselves transnationally. I study these migrants’ life courses and draw attention to cross-border intersections between their cultural, social, and economic capital wi...

Müsste ich meine „Lehr-Erfahrungen“ in einem Satz zusammenfassen, so würde dieser lauten: „Ich habe schon immer gegen die Langeweile gekämpft – als Studentin und als Dozentin, egal ob in Polen oder in Deutschland“. Wie kommt aber dazu, dass sich die Langeweile immer wieder und vielerorts an den Universitäten breitmacht? Wie kann ich – wie kann man...

This paper seeks to reframe the debates on cosmopolitanism and mobile cosmopolitan subjects by focusing its analysis on a multidimensional character of sociospatial relations. In particular, it critically engages with these works which too often see subjects as social categories and distinguish cosmopolitans from others, and which are silent bout h...

I argue that the key to understanding why migrants tend to stay in low-skilled jobs that are at odds with their qualifications and aspirations is an analysis of migration-specific transnational spaces of reference and agency. In this paper I depict the situation of Polish migrants in UK in light of the existing studies 2) describd the ways Poles se...

Do transnational mobile professionals live in a borderless world? How do they make sense of heterogeneity that they experience during their travel? These questions are central to this paper which investigates the ‘invisible’ boundaries in the world that is dominated by global networks of infrastructure and in which nation-state borders lose their r...

The study of Cosmopolitanism has been transformed in the last 20 years and the subject itself has become highly discussed across the social sciences and the humanities. The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism pursues distinct theoretical orientations and empirical analyses, bringing together mainstream discussions with the newest thinking...

International migration and transnational ways of life of migrants bring a new kind of complexity into European societies. The term diversity is used to describe the quality of ethnically, religiously and socially complex societies and the processes taking place within them, yet there remains much confusion in the scholarly mobilization of the conc...

Wenn junge Erwachsene aus Polen nach Deutschland kommen, beginnt für sie eine Reise, die nicht unbedingt ein klares Ende hat. Diese Reise – auch durch ein wissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld – ist Gegenstand dieses Kapitels. Ich werde die Situation junger Polen skizzieren, die sich in einem Lebensabschnitt für ein Studium in Deutschland entschieden h...

What makes people cosmopolitan? How is cosmopolitanism shaping everyday life experiences and the practices of ordinary people? Making use of empirical research, Cosmopolitanism in Practice examines the concrete settings in which individuals display cosmopolitan sensibilities and dispositions, illustrating the ways in which cosmopolitan self-transfo...