Aleksandra Lewicki
Biographic Data
| ID | 187909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Lewicki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewicki |
| SIGNATURE | LEWICKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sex, care and the working body: Ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as ‘Eastern European
The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe
In this book review, Aleksandra Lewicki engages with Anca Parvulescu’s and Manuela Boatcā’s ‘Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires’ to extract key lessons for global debates about the contours of race and racism from their work. Regions in the east of Europe are often sidelined in scholarly discussions about race-making, or regional histories of racialisation are masked with ascriptions of backwardness, tribalism or ‘ethnic conflict’…
Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain
Far-right agendas have moved to the centre stage of politics. Here, we examine how registers of difference are crafted within reactionary movements in the UK. We analyse social media activities and interviews with individuals who gained a public profile by advancing far-right agendas. Racist and transphobic discourses thereby fulfil parallel functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression. Th…
Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit
The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a rowing back on neoliberalism. In this article, I draw on and expand the scholarship on coloniality to address the limitations of this diagnosis. Specifically, I explore the role of political mobilization in the making of the post-Brexit border regime. My research draws on the analysis of legal and polic…
When, How, and in Relation to Whom is ‘Race’ at Play in Invocations of ‘Eastern Europe
East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans
A growing scholarly literature describes people who moved from Europe’s East to its West as racialised. Others speak of ‘migratization’ or ‘xenophobia’. Many of these contributions have in common that they conceive of discrimination as occurring after migration. What is more, they focus on the attitudinal dimension of ‘prejudice’, as expressed in the media or the narratives of East–West movers themselves. What thereby slips from view is that raci…
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state
The scholarship on institutional racism has emerged from contexts such as Australia, the UK or the US. Less is known about how racism operates within institutional settings elsewhere. What is more, our understanding of Whiteness is shaped by this Anglocentric literature. In this article, I explore the contextual features of Whiteness in residential care in Germany. More specifically, I trace how institutional routines shape affective subjectiviti…
The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State
The Christian Caritas and Diakonie are Germany's largest welfare providers. They currently recruit abroad and in refugee shelters to fill staffing shortages in care. Yet, they also seek to preserve their organisations' Christian identity. Drawing on interviews with facility managers, my research explores how these initiatives shape institutional life in care homes. Specifically, I examine meanings attributed to conversion, notably in relation to …
Shrinking Spaces für die Zivilgesellschaft Aktivismus unter illiberalen Vorzeichen
Building a new nation: Anti-Muslim racism in post-unification Germany
Research has provided insight into ideas, agents and patterns of inequality associated with Islamophobia. Yet, we know less about why anti-Muslim racism is so virulent and persistent today. Focusing on post-unification Germany, we explore the broader function Islamophobia fulfils for society. We draw on a discourse analysis of statements by four public figures, the publicists Monika Maron and Alice Schwarzer, and the politicians Vera Lengsfeld an…
Race, Islamophobia and the politics of citizenship in post-unification Germany
In the immediate aftermath of German reunification, as in the wake of the recent humanitarian crisis, Germany experienced notable ‘peaks’ of racist agitation and violence. In the 1990s, as today, the post-Communist eastern regions of Germany tend to be perceived as the hub of such racism. In this article, Lewicki revisits both ‘peaks’ via an examination of numerical evidence for verbal and physical racist violence in the former East and West of G…
The blind spots of liberal citizenship and integration policy
Governments across Europe have stepped up their efforts to manage social diversity politically, often specifically targeting Muslim populations. Lewicki interrogates the policy tools that the British and German governments deploy to ‘integrate’ an increasingly stigmatized and racialized population, zooming in on whether and how they problematize patterns of inequality. Complicating the ‘one country, one citizenship’ rationale of the citizenship r…
The dead are coming: Acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders
This article combines the research agenda of the acts of citizenship literature with reflections on emancipatory theatre. I examine the Centre for Political Beauty’s activity-based artwork ‘The dead are coming’ which problematizes the cruelties of the European border regime in symbolically charged spaces in the German public. Focusing particularly on the roles available to ‘actors’ and ‘spectators’, and the directionality of the message conveyed …
Acts and practices of citizenship: Muslim women's activism in the UK
Drawing on the growing literature on Muslim women's activism, this paper explores grammars of action that frame political mobilizations of Muslim women in the UK. By taking a broad view of political activism, we identify acts and practices of citizenship through which Muslim women activists engage with, reinterpret and challenge social norms. The article critically engages with dominant readings of post-migration minorities' political mobilizatio…
Moving citizens: Citizenship practices among Polish migrants in Norway and the United Kingdom
Following post-EU-accession migration, Poles currently form the largest group of foreign nationals in Norway and the second largest group of foreign born residents in the United Kingdom. Given the considerable volume of new arrivals, there is a growing literature on Polish migration to both countries; however, there is little comparative research on Polish migration across different European settings. By exploring how Polish migrants reflect on t…
Polish migration within Europe: Mobility, transnationalism and integration
Polish migration within Europe is by now a well-researched field, with a growing number of scholars exploring a variety of its features across different disciplines and geographic locations. A deca
Weil ihre Kultur so ist: Narrative des antimuslimischen Rassismus
Citizenship beyond Multiculturalism? The Requirements of Social Justice in Diverse Societies
This article proposes a normative perspective that reintroduces social justice considerations more explicitly into debates about the integrative function of democratic citizenship in Europe. Such conceptual adjustments are, I suggest, not achieved by defending multiculturalism or abandoning its key concerns altogether, but by building on the significant contribution the concept has made to our understanding of citizenship while addressing its sho…
East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans
A growing scholarly literature describes people who moved from Europe’s East to its West as racialised. Others speak of ‘migratization’ or ‘xenophobia’. Many of these contributions have in common that they conceive of discrimination as occurring after migration. What is more, they focus on the attitudinal dimension of ‘prejudice’, as expressed in the media or the narratives of East–West movers themselves. What thereby slips from view is that raci…
Acts and practices of citizenship: Muslim women's activism in the UK
Drawing on the growing literature on Muslim women's activism, this paper explores grammars of action that frame political mobilizations of Muslim women in the UK. By taking a broad view of political activism, we identify acts and practices of citizenship through which Muslim women activists engage with, reinterpret and challenge social norms. The article critically engages with dominant readings of post-migration minorities' political mobilizatio…
Race, Islamophobia and the politics of citizenship in post-unification Germany
In the immediate aftermath of German reunification, as in the wake of the recent humanitarian crisis, Germany experienced notable ‘peaks’ of racist agitation and violence. In the 1990s, as today, the post-Communist eastern regions of Germany tend to be perceived as the hub of such racism. In this article, Lewicki revisits both ‘peaks’ via an examination of numerical evidence for verbal and physical racist violence in the former East and West of G…
Polish migration within Europe: Mobility, transnationalism and integration
Polish migration within Europe is by now a well-researched field, with a growing number of scholars exploring a variety of its features across different disciplines and geographic locations. A deca
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state
The scholarship on institutional racism has emerged from contexts such as Australia, the UK or the US. Less is known about how racism operates within institutional settings elsewhere. What is more, our understanding of Whiteness is shaped by this Anglocentric literature. In this article, I explore the contextual features of Whiteness in residential care in Germany. More specifically, I trace how institutional routines shape affective subjectiviti…
Building a new nation: Anti-Muslim racism in post-unification Germany
Research has provided insight into ideas, agents and patterns of inequality associated with Islamophobia. Yet, we know less about why anti-Muslim racism is so virulent and persistent today. Focusing on post-unification Germany, we explore the broader function Islamophobia fulfils for society. We draw on a discourse analysis of statements by four public figures, the publicists Monika Maron and Alice Schwarzer, and the politicians Vera Lengsfeld an…
Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit
The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a rowing back on neoliberalism. In this article, I draw on and expand the scholarship on coloniality to address the limitations of this diagnosis. Specifically, I explore the role of political mobilization in the making of the post-Brexit border regime. My research draws on the analysis of legal and polic…
The dead are coming: Acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders
This article combines the research agenda of the acts of citizenship literature with reflections on emancipatory theatre. I examine the Centre for Political Beauty’s activity-based artwork ‘The dead are coming’ which problematizes the cruelties of the European border regime in symbolically charged spaces in the German public. Focusing particularly on the roles available to ‘actors’ and ‘spectators’, and the directionality of the message conveyed …
The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State
The Christian Caritas and Diakonie are Germany's largest welfare providers. They currently recruit abroad and in refugee shelters to fill staffing shortages in care. Yet, they also seek to preserve their organisations' Christian identity. Drawing on interviews with facility managers, my research explores how these initiatives shape institutional life in care homes. Specifically, I examine meanings attributed to conversion, notably in relation to …
Sex, care and the working body: Ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as ‘Eastern European
The blind spots of liberal citizenship and integration policy
Governments across Europe have stepped up their efforts to manage social diversity politically, often specifically targeting Muslim populations. Lewicki interrogates the policy tools that the British and German governments deploy to ‘integrate’ an increasingly stigmatized and racialized population, zooming in on whether and how they problematize patterns of inequality. Complicating the ‘one country, one citizenship’ rationale of the citizenship r…
Moving citizens: Citizenship practices among Polish migrants in Norway and the United Kingdom
Following post-EU-accession migration, Poles currently form the largest group of foreign nationals in Norway and the second largest group of foreign born residents in the United Kingdom. Given the considerable volume of new arrivals, there is a growing literature on Polish migration to both countries; however, there is little comparative research on Polish migration across different European settings. By exploring how Polish migrants reflect on t…
Citizenship beyond Multiculturalism? The Requirements of Social Justice in Diverse Societies
This article proposes a normative perspective that reintroduces social justice considerations more explicitly into debates about the integrative function of democratic citizenship in Europe. Such conceptual adjustments are, I suggest, not achieved by defending multiculturalism or abandoning its key concerns altogether, but by building on the significant contribution the concept has made to our understanding of citizenship while addressing its sho…
Weil ihre Kultur so ist: Narrative des antimuslimischen Rassismus
Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain
Far-right agendas have moved to the centre stage of politics. Here, we examine how registers of difference are crafted within reactionary movements in the UK. We analyse social media activities and interviews with individuals who gained a public profile by advancing far-right agendas. Racist and transphobic discourses thereby fulfil parallel functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression. Th…
Citizenship beyond Multiculturalism? The Requirements of Social Justice in Diverse Societies
This article proposes a normative perspective that reintroduces social justice considerations more explicitly into debates about the integrative function of democratic citizenship in Europe. Such conceptual adjustments are, I suggest, not achieved by defending multiculturalism or abandoning its key concerns altogether, but by building on the significant contribution the concept has made to our understanding of citizenship while addressing its sho…
Polish migration within Europe: Mobility, transnationalism and integration
Polish migration within Europe is by now a well-researched field, with a growing number of scholars exploring a variety of its features across different disciplines and geographic locations. A deca
Weil ihre Kultur so ist: Narrative des antimuslimischen Rassismus
Moving citizens: Citizenship practices among Polish migrants in Norway and the United Kingdom
Following post-EU-accession migration, Poles currently form the largest group of foreign nationals in Norway and the second largest group of foreign born residents in the United Kingdom. Given the considerable volume of new arrivals, there is a growing literature on Polish migration to both countries; however, there is little comparative research on Polish migration across different European settings. By exploring how Polish migrants reflect on t…
The blind spots of liberal citizenship and integration policy
Governments across Europe have stepped up their efforts to manage social diversity politically, often specifically targeting Muslim populations. Lewicki interrogates the policy tools that the British and German governments deploy to ‘integrate’ an increasingly stigmatized and racialized population, zooming in on whether and how they problematize patterns of inequality. Complicating the ‘one country, one citizenship’ rationale of the citizenship r…
The dead are coming: Acts of citizenship at Europe’s borders
This article combines the research agenda of the acts of citizenship literature with reflections on emancipatory theatre. I examine the Centre for Political Beauty’s activity-based artwork ‘The dead are coming’ which problematizes the cruelties of the European border regime in symbolically charged spaces in the German public. Focusing particularly on the roles available to ‘actors’ and ‘spectators’, and the directionality of the message conveyed …
Acts and practices of citizenship: Muslim women's activism in the UK
Drawing on the growing literature on Muslim women's activism, this paper explores grammars of action that frame political mobilizations of Muslim women in the UK. By taking a broad view of political activism, we identify acts and practices of citizenship through which Muslim women activists engage with, reinterpret and challenge social norms. The article critically engages with dominant readings of post-migration minorities' political mobilizatio…
Race, Islamophobia and the politics of citizenship in post-unification Germany
In the immediate aftermath of German reunification, as in the wake of the recent humanitarian crisis, Germany experienced notable ‘peaks’ of racist agitation and violence. In the 1990s, as today, the post-Communist eastern regions of Germany tend to be perceived as the hub of such racism. In this article, Lewicki revisits both ‘peaks’ via an examination of numerical evidence for verbal and physical racist violence in the former East and West of G…
Building a new nation: Anti-Muslim racism in post-unification Germany
Research has provided insight into ideas, agents and patterns of inequality associated with Islamophobia. Yet, we know less about why anti-Muslim racism is so virulent and persistent today. Focusing on post-unification Germany, we explore the broader function Islamophobia fulfils for society. We draw on a discourse analysis of statements by four public figures, the publicists Monika Maron and Alice Schwarzer, and the politicians Vera Lengsfeld an…
Shrinking Spaces für die Zivilgesellschaft Aktivismus unter illiberalen Vorzeichen
The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State
The Christian Caritas and Diakonie are Germany's largest welfare providers. They currently recruit abroad and in refugee shelters to fill staffing shortages in care. Yet, they also seek to preserve their organisations' Christian identity. Drawing on interviews with facility managers, my research explores how these initiatives shape institutional life in care homes. Specifically, I examine meanings attributed to conversion, notably in relation to …
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state
The scholarship on institutional racism has emerged from contexts such as Australia, the UK or the US. Less is known about how racism operates within institutional settings elsewhere. What is more, our understanding of Whiteness is shaped by this Anglocentric literature. In this article, I explore the contextual features of Whiteness in residential care in Germany. More specifically, I trace how institutional routines shape affective subjectiviti…
East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans
A growing scholarly literature describes people who moved from Europe’s East to its West as racialised. Others speak of ‘migratization’ or ‘xenophobia’. Many of these contributions have in common that they conceive of discrimination as occurring after migration. What is more, they focus on the attitudinal dimension of ‘prejudice’, as expressed in the media or the narratives of East–West movers themselves. What thereby slips from view is that raci…
Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit
The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a rowing back on neoliberalism. In this article, I draw on and expand the scholarship on coloniality to address the limitations of this diagnosis. Specifically, I explore the role of political mobilization in the making of the post-Brexit border regime. My research draws on the analysis of legal and polic…
When, How, and in Relation to Whom is ‘Race’ at Play in Invocations of ‘Eastern Europe
The global contours of race and histories of racialisation in the East of Europe
In this book review, Aleksandra Lewicki engages with Anca Parvulescu’s and Manuela Boatcā’s ‘Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania across Empires’ to extract key lessons for global debates about the contours of race and racism from their work. Regions in the east of Europe are often sidelined in scholarly discussions about race-making, or regional histories of racialisation are masked with ascriptions of backwardness, tribalism or ‘ethnic conflict’…
Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain
Far-right agendas have moved to the centre stage of politics. Here, we examine how registers of difference are crafted within reactionary movements in the UK. We analyse social media activities and interviews with individuals who gained a public profile by advancing far-right agendas. Racist and transphobic discourses thereby fulfil parallel functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression. Th…
Sex, care and the working body: Ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as ‘Eastern European
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Citizenship (6 works) · Racism (5 works)