Ewa Morawska
Biographic Data
| ID | 203129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ewa Morawska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ewa |
| FAMILY NAME | Morawska |
| SIGNATURE | MORAWSKA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Insecure Prosperity
Qualitative Migration Research
Multicultural Modes of Immigrants' Integration into the Host Society
In this essay, I argue that in addition to the acknowledged modes of immigrants' integration into receiver societies, such as straight-line or segmented assimilation, 'bumpy' incorporation, and ethnicization as the mixing and blending of home and host country ways of life, we should recognize the possibility of multicultural paths of newcomers' adaptation to the sociocultural environments of the host-country. I begin by defining what I mean by a …
Multifarious Transnational Engagements of Contemporary Diaspora Members
Drawing on recent studies of diaspora and its members' transnational engagements, which treat the former as fuzzy-boundary, context-dependent groupings and the latter as multifaceted (rather than two-pronged) relationships, I explore in this article the notion of diasporans' polymorphous and multidirectional transnational commitments; identify different types of such involvements; and propose a preliminary list of macro- and micro-level circumsta…
International Migration Research
The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the theoretical and research agendas of the social science disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of authors presents a stocktaking account of current research on international migration in order to lay the ground for such an interdisciplinary collaboration. The …
A Century of Transnationalism
This collection of nine essays about immigrants’ transnational engagements in their home countries covers a wide range of groups—Italians, Portuguese, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Arabs, Jews, and Indians—in different countries/world regions examined in different time spans. The book is divided into two parts, one devoted to the role of sender and receiver states in shaping immigrant transnational pursuits, and the other to the importance of the …
Bringing the Notion of “Ethclass” to Life
Research Article| October 01 2016 Bringing the Notion of “Ethclass” to Life: Victor Greene’s Contributions to the History of American Industrial Workers Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska is Professor of Sociology at Essex University, UK. She is the author of several books, including For Bread with Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890–1940 (1985); Insecure Prosperity: Jews in Small-Town Industrial…
Strangers no more's several contributions (and my few regrets)
The main strengths of the book include, I argue, the authors' sophisticated conceptualization of immigrants' and their offspring's integration into the host society as complex, multi-dimensional processes which can contain contradictory tendencies; a well-executed and informative comparative analysis of these developments in several countries with - rare among the social scientists - a firm anchoring of the present situations in the past from whi…
Toward a reconciliation of the structuration and morphogenesis theories “tested” in the eventful historical analysis ☆ In its original version this essay, entitled “Studying international migration in…
Purpose: The purpose of this essay is twofold: (i) identification of the shared premises of the structuration and morphogenesis theories which have remained indifferent to or openly at odds with each other, while highlighting at the same time the specific elements of these two models which are better elaborated in one than the other; and (ii) demonstration of the benefits of social theory testing on the eventful historical analysis. Design/method…
Toward Assimilation and Citizenship
This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citize
Composite meaning, flexible ranges, and multi-level conditions of conviviality
In this article, I present, first, a composite definition of conviviality whose constitutive components are conceived in terms of degrees rather than as present-or-absent conditions. Next, I offer a preliminary list of macro-, micro- and individual-level circumstances which co-shape conviviality into different arrangements and intensities. Within the framework of the structuration theory which informs my discussion, I then identify the characteri…
Different Times, Different Places, Different Standpoints
These autobiographical reflections assess the "pulse" of British sociology as compared with that of its counterpart in the United States where the author spent most of her professional life
Diaspora' diasporas' representations of their homelands
n This essay attempts to make more pliable three overly rigid claims persistent in the diaspora literature: that diaspora members? imaginations of the homeland are either beautifying/idealizing or unequivocally inimical; that their relations with the host country are inherently distant?they are in it but not of it; and that diasporism and (im)migrant transnationalism constitute two dictinct phenomena. It also aims at genderizing the stubbornly ge…
A Sociology of Immigration
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of internationa
From Arrival to Incorporation
Research on Immigration/Ethnicity in Europe and The United States
The article compares the main research agendas and methodological and theoretical approaches informing current studies of immigration and ethnicity in the United States and Europe (represented by six countries: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden). The European part of the report focuses on the common features of immigration and ethnic research in the countries selected for examination as compared with the Am…
The Recognition Politics of Polish Radio MultiKulti in Berlin
Initiated in 1988 by the Gruene (Green) faction of the Berlin Public Media Council as the programme ?for and about the city?s immigrants,? Radio MultiKulti had subsequently come under the independent co-management of Berlin?s major immigrant groups and gained city-wide prestige and recognition as the ?alternative? source of cultural entertainment and political information. The paper examines the programmes of the Polish section of Radio MultiKult…
Polish-Jewish Relations in America, 1880–1940
Exploring Diversity in Immigrant Assimilation and Transnationalism
This article investigates different patterns of coexistence of assimilation and transnational engagements (A/T) among recent Polish and Jewish Russian immigrants in Philadelphia and the particular constellations of circumstances that generate these outcomes. It then integrates this analysis into a broader comparative examination of the simultaneity of A/T among residentially dispersed Asian Indians, first-wave Cubans in Miami, and Jamaicans, undo…
Disciplinary Agendas and Analytic Strategies of Research on Immigrant Transnationalism
To be successful, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of immigration and transnationalism should begin by making different disciplinary languages about this phenomenon informed by mutual understanding of the conceptual frameworks, epistemological assumptions, and explanatory strategies used in research in particular academic fields. Drawing on studies in anthropology, sociology, history, and political science, I review here these taken-for…
The Handbook of International Migration
Book Review| January 01 2001 The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience, Charles Hirshman, Philip Kasinitz and Josh DeWind. Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2001) 20 (2): 115–118. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502681 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Words of the Uprooted. Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America
Structuring migration
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Forced Migrations
The article examines the consequences, thus far under-investigated in transnational migration studies, of forced population movements for the societies and cultures of the sending/expelling countries. The cases considered are immense forced migrations, involving over 80 million people, across and outside Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. The discussion focuses on the consequences of these involuntary movements in the public sphere, inc…
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Forced Migrations
Ewa Morawska, Intended and Unintended Consequences of Forced Migrations: A Neglected Aspect of East Europe's Twentieth Century History, The International Migration Review, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 1049-1087
Toward Assimilation and Citizenship
This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citize
Exploring Diversity in Immigrant Assimilation and Transnationalism
This article investigates different patterns of coexistence of assimilation and transnational engagements (A/T) among recent Polish and Jewish Russian immigrants in Philadelphia and the particular constellations of circumstances that generate these outcomes. It then integrates this analysis into a broader comparative examination of the simultaneity of A/T among residentially dispersed Asian Indians, first-wave Cubans in Miami, and Jamaicans, undo…
Structuring migration
Diaspora' diasporas' representations of their homelands
n This essay attempts to make more pliable three overly rigid claims persistent in the diaspora literature: that diaspora members? imaginations of the homeland are either beautifying/idealizing or unequivocally inimical; that their relations with the host country are inherently distant?they are in it but not of it; and that diasporism and (im)migrant transnationalism constitute two dictinct phenomena. It also aims at genderizing the stubbornly ge…
Disciplinary Agendas and Analytic Strategies of Research on Immigrant Transnationalism
To be successful, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of immigration and transnationalism should begin by making different disciplinary languages about this phenomenon informed by mutual understanding of the conceptual frameworks, epistemological assumptions, and explanatory strategies used in research in particular academic fields. Drawing on studies in anthropology, sociology, history, and political science, I review here these taken-for…
International Migration Research
The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the theoretical and research agendas of the social science disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of authors presents a stocktaking account of current research on international migration in order to lay the ground for such an interdisciplinary collaboration. The …
Sociological ambivalence
Labor Migrations of Poles in the Atlantic World Economy, 1880-1914
The recent influx to the United States of a new large wave of immigrants from Hispanic America and Asia has reinvigorated immigration and ethnic studies, including those devoted to the analysis of the origins and process of international migrations. The accumulation of research in this field in the last fifteen years has brought about a shift in the theoretical paradigm designed to interpret these movements. The classical approach explains the ma…
Composite meaning, flexible ranges, and multi-level conditions of conviviality
In this article, I present, first, a composite definition of conviviality whose constitutive components are conceived in terms of degrees rather than as present-or-absent conditions. Next, I offer a preliminary list of macro-, micro- and individual-level circumstances which co-shape conviviality into different arrangements and intensities. Within the framework of the structuration theory which informs my discussion, I then identify the characteri…
The malleable homo sovieticus
This paper investigates the coping strategies of post-1989 East Central European transnational migrant entrepreneurs. Paradoxically, rather than facilitating transfer into the region of liberal-democratic orientations and practices, the incorporation of East Central Europe into late 20th-century consumer capitalism based on short-cycle flexible production in sectors unregulated by legal-institutional frameworks reproduces some of the features of …
Civil Religion vs. State Power in Poland
From Arrival to Incorporation
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Forced Migrations
The article examines the consequences, thus far under-investigated in transnational migration studies, of forced population movements for the societies and cultures of the sending/expelling countries. The cases considered are immense forced migrations, involving over 80 million people, across and outside Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. The discussion focuses on the consequences of these involuntary movements in the public sphere, inc…
Intended and Unintended Consequences of Forced Migrations
Ewa Morawska, Intended and Unintended Consequences of Forced Migrations: A Neglected Aspect of East Europe's Twentieth Century History, The International Migration Review, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 1049-1087
On Barriers to Pluralism in Pluralist Poland
Having crushed the Solidarity movement's unprecedented attempt to pluralize postwar Polish society, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the first secretary of the Polish United Workers' party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza or PZPR) ordered a special commission of the party's Central Committee to study the causes of the political crises that have repeatedly convulsed Poland during forty years of Communist rule and have resulted in the downfall of …
Research on Immigration/Ethnicity in Europe and The United States
The article compares the main research agendas and methodological and theoretical approaches informing current studies of immigration and ethnicity in the United States and Europe (represented by six countries: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden). The European part of the report focuses on the common features of immigration and ethnic research in the countries selected for examination as compared with the Am…
How We Found America
Journal Article How We Found America: Reading Gender through East European Immigrant Narratives. By Magdalena J. Zaborowska. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvi, 359 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2203-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4509-4.) Get access Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
Women in the Campaign to Organize Garment Workers, 1880-1917
East European Labourers in an American Mill Town, 1890-1940
Using the Lockwoodian typology of deferential, proletarian, and privatized working-class consciousness, this social-historical analysis reconstructs and compares the kinds of social representations held by East European workers of the immigrant and native-born generations in an American mill town in the period 1890-1940. Exemplifying and extending the newer literature on class consciousness and social imagery, the paper shows (1) how and which in…
The Recognition Politics of Polish Radio MultiKulti in Berlin
Initiated in 1988 by the Gruene (Green) faction of the Berlin Public Media Council as the programme ?for and about the city?s immigrants,? Radio MultiKulti had subsequently come under the independent co-management of Berlin?s major immigrant groups and gained city-wide prestige and recognition as the ?alternative? source of cultural entertainment and political information. The paper examines the programmes of the Polish section of Radio MultiKult…
The Internal Status Hierarchy in the East European Immigrant Communities of Johnstown, Pa 1890-1930's
Journal Article The Internal Status Hierarchy in the East European Immigrant Communities of Johnstown, Pa 1890–1930's Get access Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 1, Fall 1982, Pages 75–107, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.1.75 Published: 01 October 1982
A Historical Ethnography in the Making
Polish American Community Life
Polish-American Community Life
The Internal Status Hierarchy in the East European Immigrant Communities of Johnstown, Pa 1890-1930's
Journal Article The Internal Status Hierarchy in the East European Immigrant Communities of Johnstown, Pa 1890–1930's Get access Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 1, Fall 1982, Pages 75–107, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.1.75 Published: 01 October 1982
For Bread With Butter
Journal Article 'For Bread With Butter': Life-Worlds of Peasant Immigrants from East Central Europe, 1880–1914 Get access Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 17, Issue 3, Spring 1984, Pages 387–404, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/17.3.387 Published: 01 March 1984
Civil Religion vs. State Power in Poland
East European Labourers in an American Mill Town, 1890-1940
Using the Lockwoodian typology of deferential, proletarian, and privatized working-class consciousness, this social-historical analysis reconstructs and compares the kinds of social representations held by East European workers of the immigrant and native-born generations in an American mill town in the period 1890-1940. Exemplifying and extending the newer literature on class consciousness and social imagery, the paper shows (1) how and which in…
David Berger, editor, The Legacy of Jewish Migration
For Bread with Butter
Journal Article For Bread with Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890–1940. By Ewa Morawska. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xvii + 429 pp. $39.50.) Get access M. Mark Stolarik M. Mark Stolarik Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 771–772, https://doi.…
Back of the Yards
Robert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an emerging scholarly picture of ordinary people exercising unique forms of power. John Bodnar, author of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
Social Change and the Labouring Poor
Sociological ambivalence
Women in the Campaign to Organize Garment Workers, 1880-1917
Stephen Birmingham, The Rest of Us. The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews
For Bread with Butter
For Bread with Butter
On Barriers to Pluralism in Pluralist Poland
Having crushed the Solidarity movement's unprecedented attempt to pluralize postwar Polish society, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the first secretary of the Polish United Workers' party (Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza or PZPR) ordered a special commission of the party's Central Committee to study the causes of the political crises that have repeatedly convulsed Poland during forty years of Communist rule and have resulted in the downfall of …
The Anthracite Aristocracy
"Sociology and "Historical Matters
Journal Article Sociology and “Historical Matters” Get access Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 23, Issue 2, Winter 1989, Pages 439–444, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/23.2.439 Published: 01 December 1989
Labor Migrations of Poles in the Atlantic World Economy, 1880-1914
The recent influx to the United States of a new large wave of immigrants from Hispanic America and Asia has reinvigorated immigration and ethnic studies, including those devoted to the analysis of the origins and process of international migrations. The accumulation of research in this field in the last fifteen years has brought about a shift in the theoretical paradigm designed to interpret these movements. The classical approach explains the ma…
Teaching Historical Sociology
(1990). Teaching Historical Sociology: A Discussion. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 121-134
The Roots of Solidarity
"Une vision "revisitée
Morawska Ewa. Une vision "revisitée" . In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 99, septembre 1993. Migrations et minorités. pp. 65-77
How We Found America
Journal Article How We Found America: Reading Gender through East European Immigrant Narratives. By Magdalena J. Zaborowska. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xvi, 359 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2203-5. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4509-4.) Get access Ewa Morawska Ewa Morawska University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
A Historical Ethnography in the Making
Insecure Prosperity
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