Sylwia Urbanska

Sylwia Urbanska
  • Professor (Assistant) at University of Warsaw

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University of Warsaw
Current position
  • Professor (Assistant)

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Publications (24)
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W artykule analizuję relacje między upłciowionymi praktykami i dyskursami rozwodu w wiejskiej społeczności a ścieżkami (nie)mobilności mieszkanek wsi. Pokazuję, że „pionierki rozwodu”, czyli kobiety z rolniczych, konserwatywnych społeczności, które w lokalnym świecie społecznym jako pierwsze przeprowadziły rozwód, wypracowały alternatywne strategie...
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The aim of the article is to analyse social change in the area of the gendered care practices and identities of migrant mothers, who were forced by the social and economic situation in Poland to (illegally) work abroad without their children and families. It asks what kind of experiences of social change we can find if we look at the foodways pract...
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The aim of this article is to reread The Polish Peasant in Europe and America as a representation of the fears and modernisation fantasies of its era. I analyse the patterns of gendered family relations and ideals of femininity and masculinity constructed by Thomas and Znaniecki within the framework of rural–urban discourses. As I will show, in The...
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Co się dzieje w polskich organizacjach Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego poza granicami kraju? Organizacje te muszą działać w społeczeństwach pluralistycznych i wielokulturowych, o znacznym stopniu sekularyzacji, w których o wiele bardziej powszechne niż w Polsce są idee równości płci i emancypacji. Czy otwierają się na nowe egalitarne wzory, czy też ko...
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In this article I discuss the need for more systematic integration of approaches dealing with religious beliefs and practices into the discussion about sources and areas of gender social changes that occur in global migration. Firstly, starting from the discussion about negative representations of religiosity in contemporary debates, I consider fro...
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The article aims to address the complexity of the models of masculinity (re)produced in the transnational context and explain the role of religion in this process. It draws on qualitative research conducted among religiously committed Catholic male migrants from Poland who have settled in multicultural and secular societies: England, Belgium, and S...
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This article examines the practices that maintain the gender asymmetry in transnational migratory religious organisations, as exemplified by the Polish organisations of the Roman Catholic Church (so-called Polish Catholic Missions). Based on interviews with women and men involved in these structures as well as on our observations during fieldwork,...
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W artykule analizujemy konstruowanie męskości przez polskich migrantów zaangażowanych w działalność polskich organizacji Kościoła katolickiego za granicą. Przedstawiamy wyniki badań, które przeprowadziłyśmy w latach 2016–2018 z aktywnymi religijnie polskimi mężczyznami migrantami, w trzech krajach: Anglii, Belgii i Szwecji. Ramą heurystyczną analiz...
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The article examines the transformations of masculine formal (ordained) power in the Polish migrant religious organisations of the Roman Catholic Church. Based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 97 transmigrant women and men (consecrated and lay activists) involved in 14 Polish Catholic Mission organisations in England, Belgium and Sweden, the...
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The aim of the article is to analyse social change in the area of the gendered care practices and identities of migrant mothers, who were forced by the social and economic situation in Poland to (illegally) work abroad without their children and families. It asks what kind of experiences of social change we can find if we look at the foodways pract...
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Celem artykułu jest analiza wzorów działań kobiet i mężczyzn w polskich migracyjnych organizacjach religijnych Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego na przykładzie Polskich Misji Katolickich (PMK) w Anglii, Belgii i Szwecji, rozpatrywanych jako izomorficzne, to znaczy zależne od środowiska społecznego i zmieniające się w jego kontekście. PMK to organizacje,...
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Since the beginning of the 1980s, the previously one-dimensional economic approach that was once dominant in migration studies has been critically reviewed and, as a result, migration has become problematised. The incorporation of other dimensions in the analysis of the processes of migration allowed for more complex diagnoses of global inequalitie...
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Sprawozdanie z konferencji Women, religions and gender relations, 9-11 listopada 2016 roku, University of Turin, Turyn.
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Since the late 1980s there has been a growing interest in women’s migration, which led to the emergence of intersectional analysis as a main focus of gendered studies of mobility. However, intersectional research of global migration processes rarely includes the analysis of religion in the experience of migrants, not asking about the possible role...
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This article discusses and expands on two related issues. The first is the unexplored reasons for the departure of Polish migrant women: the forced migration phenomenon. The author describes the system behind forced migration as created at the intersections not only of care, gender and migration regimes but also of legal regimes. Second, the author...
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W debacie wokół przemian współczesnych rodzin i wzorców płci rzadko dyskutuje się o doświadczeniach kobiet spoza klasy średniej. W istocie niewiele wiemy na temat tego, jak po 1989 roku zmieniały się biografie, tożsamości i role rodzinne rolniczek i robotnic. Tymczasem od co najmniej kilku dekad to właśnie zwalniane z restrukturyzujących się fabryk...
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An analysis of the biography of Natalia, a former resident of a Polish children's home who, at the age of thirteen, voluntarily left her biological, dysfunctional family, aims to address a question which is fundamental, but rarely asked by the sociologists of family. Is it possible to completely quit a relation with one's family of origin? What ide...
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This article analyses the transnational parenting phenomenon in Poland and the moral panics — reaction to it as shown in both public discourses and actions of public institutions. Such features can be found while analysing discourses about “euro-orphans” (such a label is given to migrants’ children) that have occupied public discourses since mid-20...
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Dynamicznie rozwijający się nurt badań nad transnarodowością pozwala pokazać i pomaga wyjaśniać subtelności współczesnej (ale i dawnej) mobilności oraz różnego typu paradoksy, pęknięcia strukturalne i napięcia na linii mobilność a państwo narodowe. Perspektywa transnarodowa pozwala też na ukazanie sposobów transgresji granic terytorialnych w relacj...

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