I Main
Biographic Data
| ID | 14812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Main |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Main |
| SIGNATURE | MAIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9881-6838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Migrant Parents at the Intersection of Vulnerability and the Demands of the Poland's Education System
Vulnerability among migrant parents is analyzed as a critical experience that impacts educational equity and social integration. In the context of the educational system in Poland, migrant parents may face challenges like language barriers, cultural differences and limited resources that hinder their ability to engage with schools and advocate for their children's needs. Despite some research acknowledging these challenges, there remains a gap in…
Dzieciństwo, „uczenie się” i sprawczość. Autoetnograficznie o doświadczeniach szkoły podstawowej w Waszyngtonie
In the text, I analyze the participation of students and parents in the everyday world of a primary school in Washington D.C., USA. Based on observation, unstructured interviews and autoethnography, I analyzed three aspects that I considered most important for my experience as a parent and my daughter as a student: welcoming a child to school and creating a school community; agency and democracy at school; and, the participation of children and p…
Activism and ‘lived religion’
This article addresses the role played by religion in humanitarian aid for refugees and migrants of various faiths in predominantly Catholic Poland. Although the country has accepted small numbers of refugees for years, the discussion about their presence as well as the state of the asylum system has captured the attention of the general public in 2015. The European ‘refugee crisis’ sparked a fierce debate, further aggravated by the parliamentary…
Gazing Toward and Beyond the Borders
We investigate the meanings of borders for Syrians based in Turkey and for the efforts of the civil society organizations supporting them.We look at how being placed within specific borderscapes determines Syrians' everyday lives and CSOs' activities in Istanbul and Gaziantep.The scholarly literature usually explores experiences of borders and the consequences of bordering practices for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers while focusing solely…
Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders
From Going Abroad to Settling Down… While Remaining Mobile? Polish Women in Norway Narrate Their Migration Experiences
This article analyses mobility of Polish women living transnational lives between Poland and Norway. The emphasis is on the emic (insider’s) versus etic (outsider’s) points of view regarding issues of migrant identity, mobility before arriving in Norway, and temporality, permanence, fluidity and settlement after moving to Norway. The article is based on an online survey of 485 Polish women and 126 ethnographic interviews with Polish women residin…
“I am making good money, but …”
Precarity is defined as precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. In migration studies, precarity is often associated with low wages, “illegality” and “deportability.” Based on field research, this article focuses on Polish nurses working in Norway. As health professionals and citizens of the European Union, they do not possess the stereotypical characteristics of precarious workers. They ar…
Europe and the Refugee Response
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In thi…
Contesting Flexible Solidarity
New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European “refugee crisis.” The states have not been able to implement any viable or sustainable solution to the crisis, but the solidarity movement has been very visible and active in many European countries and rejected in others. This paper focuses on Poland, a country that gave birth to the Solidarność labor movement in 1980, but was recently reprimanded by the European Union for it…
Projekty edukacyjne na rzecz integracji społecznej oraz kształtowania postaw tolerancji i zrozumienia
In response to the „refugee crisis” of 2015 – resulting in the arrival in Europe of many thousands of people fleeing the armed conflict in Syria – the Polish Law and Justice party and the Polish government adopted negative attitudes towards refugees. The Polish mass media promoted anti-refugee narratives focused on terrorism and „threats of Islamisation”of Europe. However, these anti-refugee narratives have been countered by local antihate campai…
Transnational Mobility and Socio-cultural Remittances
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Erasing Polish Anthropology
Motivations for mobility and settlement of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin
This article focuses on individual perceptions that shape migration decisions and investigates how the process of migration or settlement itself is framed by a variety of personal considerations. It is a comparative study of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin who moved for the sake of economic and educational opportunities, because of family reunification and formation considerations (‘move for love') – as well as other reasons. It is…
Biomedical practices from a patient perspective. Experiences of Polish female migrants in Barcelona, Berlin and London
This paper focuses on the diversity in patients' experience of bio-medicine and contrasts it with the normative view characteristic of health professionals. Ethnographic fieldwork among Polish migrant women in London, Barcelona and Berlin included interviews about their experiences with local healthcare and health professionals. Themes drawn from the narratives are differences between the cities in terms of communication between patients and heal…
Medical Travels of Polish Female Migrants in Europe
The article discusses the medical travel (medical tourism) of Polish women migrants based on a study conducted between 2008 and 2011 on Polish women who migrated to London, Barcelona, and Berlin. The author argues that the principal reasons for medical travel to Poland are the lower costs of private treatment, the relatively easy access to specialised health care, and personal comfort derived from linguistic and cultural competency. The women in …
High Mobility of Polish Women
This article analyses migration narratives of a small group of Polish female “repeat migrants” currently residing in Barcelona. Before settling there they lived in at least three other countries. I argue that repeat migrants experience many challenges: learning multiple languages, integrating into multiple labour markets, building multiple social networks, and adapting to cultural contexts. I asked whether these challenges have resulted in increa…
The Avant-Garde of the Catholic Church? Catholic Student Groups at the Dominican Churches in Poznań and Krakow, Poland
The author analyzes the organization and activities of Catholic student groups during and after the communist period in Poland as an example of the transformation of religious life in response to the challenges of modernity. She argues that the student groups organized by Dominican fathers in Poznań and Kraków were the avant-garde of the Catholic Church: they pioneered liturgical reform, social activism among the laity, the ecumenical movement, t…
High Mobility of Polish Women
This article analyses migration narratives of a small group of Polish female “repeat migrants” currently residing in Barcelona. Before settling there they lived in at least three other countries. I argue that repeat migrants experience many challenges: learning multiple languages, integrating into multiple labour markets, building multiple social networks, and adapting to cultural contexts. I asked whether these challenges have resulted in increa…
Medical Travels of Polish Female Migrants in Europe
The article discusses the medical travel (medical tourism) of Polish women migrants based on a study conducted between 2008 and 2011 on Polish women who migrated to London, Barcelona, and Berlin. The author argues that the principal reasons for medical travel to Poland are the lower costs of private treatment, the relatively easy access to specialised health care, and personal comfort derived from linguistic and cultural competency. The women in …
Motivations for mobility and settlement of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin
This article focuses on individual perceptions that shape migration decisions and investigates how the process of migration or settlement itself is framed by a variety of personal considerations. It is a comparative study of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin who moved for the sake of economic and educational opportunities, because of family reunification and formation considerations (‘move for love') – as well as other reasons. It is…
Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders
Transnational Mobility and Socio-cultural Remittances
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Biomedical practices from a patient perspective. Experiences of Polish female migrants in Barcelona, Berlin and London
This paper focuses on the diversity in patients' experience of bio-medicine and contrasts it with the normative view characteristic of health professionals. Ethnographic fieldwork among Polish migrant women in London, Barcelona and Berlin included interviews about their experiences with local healthcare and health professionals. Themes drawn from the narratives are differences between the cities in terms of communication between patients and heal…
Gazing Toward and Beyond the Borders
We investigate the meanings of borders for Syrians based in Turkey and for the efforts of the civil society organizations supporting them.We look at how being placed within specific borderscapes determines Syrians' everyday lives and CSOs' activities in Istanbul and Gaziantep.The scholarly literature usually explores experiences of borders and the consequences of bordering practices for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers while focusing solely…
Contesting Flexible Solidarity
New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European “refugee crisis.” The states have not been able to implement any viable or sustainable solution to the crisis, but the solidarity movement has been very visible and active in many European countries and rejected in others. This paper focuses on Poland, a country that gave birth to the Solidarność labor movement in 1980, but was recently reprimanded by the European Union for it…
Erasing Polish Anthropology
The Avant-Garde of the Catholic Church? Catholic Student Groups at the Dominican Churches in Poznań and Krakow, Poland
The author analyzes the organization and activities of Catholic student groups during and after the communist period in Poland as an example of the transformation of religious life in response to the challenges of modernity. She argues that the student groups organized by Dominican fathers in Poznań and Kraków were the avant-garde of the Catholic Church: they pioneered liturgical reform, social activism among the laity, the ecumenical movement, t…
High Mobility of Polish Women
This article analyses migration narratives of a small group of Polish female “repeat migrants” currently residing in Barcelona. Before settling there they lived in at least three other countries. I argue that repeat migrants experience many challenges: learning multiple languages, integrating into multiple labour markets, building multiple social networks, and adapting to cultural contexts. I asked whether these challenges have resulted in increa…
Medical Travels of Polish Female Migrants in Europe
The article discusses the medical travel (medical tourism) of Polish women migrants based on a study conducted between 2008 and 2011 on Polish women who migrated to London, Barcelona, and Berlin. The author argues that the principal reasons for medical travel to Poland are the lower costs of private treatment, the relatively easy access to specialised health care, and personal comfort derived from linguistic and cultural competency. The women in …
Motivations for mobility and settlement of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin
This article focuses on individual perceptions that shape migration decisions and investigates how the process of migration or settlement itself is framed by a variety of personal considerations. It is a comparative study of Polish female migrants in Barcelona and Berlin who moved for the sake of economic and educational opportunities, because of family reunification and formation considerations (‘move for love') – as well as other reasons. It is…
Biomedical practices from a patient perspective. Experiences of Polish female migrants in Barcelona, Berlin and London
This paper focuses on the diversity in patients' experience of bio-medicine and contrasts it with the normative view characteristic of health professionals. Ethnographic fieldwork among Polish migrant women in London, Barcelona and Berlin included interviews about their experiences with local healthcare and health professionals. Themes drawn from the narratives are differences between the cities in terms of communication between patients and heal…
Erasing Polish Anthropology
Europe and the Refugee Response
This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee crisis, prompted fierce debate about European norms and values, with some commentators questioning whether mostly Muslim refugees would be able to adhere to these values, and be able to integrate into a predominantly Christian European society. In thi…
Contesting Flexible Solidarity
New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European “refugee crisis.” The states have not been able to implement any viable or sustainable solution to the crisis, but the solidarity movement has been very visible and active in many European countries and rejected in others. This paper focuses on Poland, a country that gave birth to the Solidarność labor movement in 1980, but was recently reprimanded by the European Union for it…
Projekty edukacyjne na rzecz integracji społecznej oraz kształtowania postaw tolerancji i zrozumienia
In response to the „refugee crisis” of 2015 – resulting in the arrival in Europe of many thousands of people fleeing the armed conflict in Syria – the Polish Law and Justice party and the Polish government adopted negative attitudes towards refugees. The Polish mass media promoted anti-refugee narratives focused on terrorism and „threats of Islamisation”of Europe. However, these anti-refugee narratives have been countered by local antihate campai…
Transnational Mobility and Socio-cultural Remittances
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From Going Abroad to Settling Down… While Remaining Mobile? Polish Women in Norway Narrate Their Migration Experiences
This article analyses mobility of Polish women living transnational lives between Poland and Norway. The emphasis is on the emic (insider’s) versus etic (outsider’s) points of view regarding issues of migrant identity, mobility before arriving in Norway, and temporality, permanence, fluidity and settlement after moving to Norway. The article is based on an online survey of 485 Polish women and 126 ethnographic interviews with Polish women residin…
“I am making good money, but …”
Precarity is defined as precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. In migration studies, precarity is often associated with low wages, “illegality” and “deportability.” Based on field research, this article focuses on Polish nurses working in Norway. As health professionals and citizens of the European Union, they do not possess the stereotypical characteristics of precarious workers. They ar…
Dzieciństwo, „uczenie się” i sprawczość. Autoetnograficznie o doświadczeniach szkoły podstawowej w Waszyngtonie
In the text, I analyze the participation of students and parents in the everyday world of a primary school in Washington D.C., USA. Based on observation, unstructured interviews and autoethnography, I analyzed three aspects that I considered most important for my experience as a parent and my daughter as a student: welcoming a child to school and creating a school community; agency and democracy at school; and, the participation of children and p…
Activism and ‘lived religion’
This article addresses the role played by religion in humanitarian aid for refugees and migrants of various faiths in predominantly Catholic Poland. Although the country has accepted small numbers of refugees for years, the discussion about their presence as well as the state of the asylum system has captured the attention of the general public in 2015. The European ‘refugee crisis’ sparked a fierce debate, further aggravated by the parliamentary…
Gazing Toward and Beyond the Borders
We investigate the meanings of borders for Syrians based in Turkey and for the efforts of the civil society organizations supporting them.We look at how being placed within specific borderscapes determines Syrians' everyday lives and CSOs' activities in Istanbul and Gaziantep.The scholarly literature usually explores experiences of borders and the consequences of bordering practices for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers while focusing solely…
Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders
Migrant Parents at the Intersection of Vulnerability and the Demands of the Poland's Education System
Vulnerability among migrant parents is analyzed as a critical experience that impacts educational equity and social integration. In the context of the educational system in Poland, migrant parents may face challenges like language barriers, cultural differences and limited resources that hinder their ability to engage with schools and advocate for their children's needs. Despite some research acknowledging these challenges, there remains a gap in…
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Refugee (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Economics (4 works)