Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

Restrictive, liberal, selective or universal? A cross-national analysis of European countries’ policy response to forced migrants from Ukraine Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine led to the most extensive forced displacement in Europe since WWII. The European response was initially portrayed as ‘unified’ and ‘liberal’, exemplified by the EU...

Restrictive, liberal, selective, or universal policies? 🇺🇦
Our novel #ReLiSU framework explains European responses to forced migration from Ukraine.
Just-published in the Special Issue of JEMS, which I co-edited with Vilde Hernes
@cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Poland’s return policies and practices, particularly in relation to citizens of Georgia, are the subject of the latest issue of CMR Spotlight by the @GapsReturns project team including @MateuszKrepa @MartaPachockaEU @m_jaroszewicz

migracje.uw.edu.pl/publikacje/gap…

Lots of inspiring ideas for policy recommendations on improving working & living conditions of migrants employed in food delivery & agriculture from our @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @iclaimeu.bsky.social meeting with stakeholders co-hosted with interwencjaprawna.pl/en/

i-claim.eu/sector-repor...

📣#jobalert #hiring
#Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 14.5 mo (fte) @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project: www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
#migrationresearch #sociology

The lecture is the first in the series "People on the Move. Lessons from History of Contemporary Migration", organised by the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and CMR. Stay tuned, and if you missed this one, a video will soon be available on our YouTube channel

Think migration is complex today? We just heard a fascinating lecture by #ProfKeelyStauterHalsted @thisisUIC on Poland's founding years after WW I, when border guards and other officials determined who belonged in Poland. With great commentary from #ProfDariuszStola @PAN_akademia

Join us tomorrow 👇

To dzis, zapraszamy 👇

On the overlooked tile of class in qualities data collection in a comparative urban context. #LocMig team at the annual conference of #PolishSociologicalAssociation @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

The Centre of Migration Research @UniWarszawski: currently 30 research projects, including 9 within #Horizon, and 12 financed by @ncn.gov.pl, and lots of smiling faces. This week, we had some time during our away seminar in Kumak in the Masurian Lakes to sum up and reflect.

#Locmig Team at the 19th National Sociological Congress! Reflecting on the impact of researchers’ class positionality on data quality and knowledge production @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @karolinaluk.bsky.social @kamilmatuszczyk.bsky.social

GAPs Research on Irregularisation and Return Presented at ECPR General Conference 2025 by the team at CMR, University of Warsaw — GAPs The Horizon Europe GAPs team from the Centre of Migration Research (CMR), University of Warsaw, presented the results of Work Package 7 (WP7) at the ECPR General Conference 2025, hosted by the Aristot...

Our recent news is out at #GAPs Horizon Europe website! Research on Irregularisation and Return - Poland - ECPR General Conference 2025 by @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social Mateusz Krępa Marta Pachocka Marta Jaroszewicz Tomasz Sieniow Anna Trylińska, see more: returnmigration.eu/gaps-news/ga...

Sekcja Socjologii Miasta PTS Sekcja Socjologii Miasta PTS. 1,526 likes · 137 talking about this. Strona Sekcji Socjologii Miasta Polskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego

🏆 Z radością informujemy, że dr Magdalena Chułek (OBM UW) otrzymała Nagrodę Główną im. Ewy Kaltenberg-Kwiatkowskiej za monografię „Jak wytwarzany jest slums? Studium przypadku mieszkańców Kibery i Korogocho w Nairobi”. Więcej: www.facebook.com/SekcjaMiasto...

Chcecie wiedzieć jak to jest naprawdę z tymi migracjami? Zapraszamy na spotkanie z @kaczmarczyk_cmr i @m_jaroszewicz podczas #FestwalNauki
🗓️ 23 wrzesnia o 15:00 w OBM, Pasteura 7, II piętro

Deadlines September 10 and 15, do not forget if you want to apply for these positions

Grateful to @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social for hosting me to talk about making immigration popular in Poland. Also appreciate @karolinaluk.bsky.social pressing me on the hard questions in her interview—exactly the debate we need!

Fakty, mity, emocje, pustynie i oazy. Zapraszamy na Festiwal Nauki w OBM. Cały program Festiwalu festiwalnauki.edu.pl

Is there a way to make immigration popular among voters? Read the new #CMRSPotlight with an interview with
@akoustov.bsky.social, who recently visited the CMR, to find out. Based on his new book at Columbia University Press
migracje.uw.edu.pl/publikacje/c...

Amna Shafqat: the access to higher education for refugees is constrained by lack of contacts and integrative activities with society in #Czechia while the state has no measures, schemes or strategies to support the asylum beneficiaries in that matter. Link bit.ly/4lgLpwG @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

The Case of Pre‐24 February 2022 Ukrainian Migrants and War Refugees in Poland: How War Affects Fertility Beliefs and Intentions This article deepens the understanding of the effects of war as an uncertain and crisis event on fertility beliefs and intentions. It addresses the less-explored region of Central Eastern Europe and ....

The 1st article from the #Ukrainian part of my MIGFERT project at @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social.
We analyse how, faced with prolonging war, people craft neutral narratives of the future and conditional reproductive plans, confronting individual preferences with collective goals.

doi.org/10.1002/psp....

🚨vacancy alert 👇

Anna Sára Ligeti (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Univ. of Pécs) draws a methodological conclusion that interrupted time-series analysis methods can be employed to quantify the impact of significant future events and policy changes on migration processes: bit.ly/450lTqR @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Pavić, Žanić & Bendra, drawing on their research in #Croatia, point out that the intention to stay in a peripheral local community is related to higher place attachment, traditionalism, and a lower preference for personal autonomy: bit.ly/45gSeZp @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Waterbury @ohiou.bsky.social argues that hybrid regimes co-opt and control #diaspora organisations through curtailing opposition access, expanding patronage networks, & establishing ideological hegemony through media activities - for their geopolitical goals: bit.ly/4mDWyJl @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

YouTube video by Radio Naukowe Migranci w Polsce – wszyscy komentują, mało kto rozumie | prof. Paweł Kaczmarczyk

Chcecie wiedzieć o migracjach przez wieki, aż do dziś? Najlepsza okazja dowiedzieć się od @kaczmarczyk_cmr w najnowszym odcinku @RadioNaukowe u @KaroGlowacka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDA...
radionaukowe.pl/podcast/migr...
open.spotify.com/episode/3jPL...

Artūras Tereškinas (Vytautas Magnus University) employs the concepts of ‘sticky emotions’ and ‘homemaking’ to analyse #queer migration as a ‘process of emotional disentanglement from the home country and emotional attachment to host countries‘. Link: bit.ly/4o8WjYh @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Check out this new paper by @zbrunarska.bsky.social 👇

Aadne Aasland (Oslo Metropolitan University) & Oleksandra Deineko (Oslo Metropolitan University & Karazin Kharkiv National University) point out that #Ukrainian refugees in #Norway often decide to leave this welfare state due to the feeling of loyalty to their homeland. More: bit.ly/4m5zqTw

Małgorzata Odolczyk addresses the governance of #refugees #integration in #Poland and argues that #gender is not discursively constructed as threatened by the influx of migrants, as it is rarely claimed to be a part of Polish national identity ‘in danger’: bit.ly/45mjTJm @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social