Agnieszka Trąbka
Biographic Data
| ID | 194582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agnieszka Trąbka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agnieszka |
| FAMILY NAME | Trąbka |
| SIGNATURE | TRĄBKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4813-4916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Diaspora in times of war
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine mobilized Ukrainian diasporas worldwide in support of their homeland. While the invasion prompted widespread protests and fundraising, the forms of local and transnational engagement undertaken by Ukrainians abroad have varied considerably. Using a comparative approach, this article explains diverse patterns of diasporic mobilization by examining how dynamics of mobilizing structures, host state stance t…
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance
Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed…
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers
The involvement of peer researchers has recently gained popularity insocial research, and the incentives for using participatory methodologiesare well recognised. However, as we argue, the sole presence of peerresearchers does not equate to their immediate empowerment, and moreattention should be given to the roles they play in the research and theways in which they can tangibly benefit from such collaborations. Weexplore the seemingly mundane as…
Football was the key’
While there is a growing body of literature examining the roles of sports for newly arrived migrants and refugees in ‘super-diverse’ Western settings, less is known about the roles of such initiatives in other urban contexts, where everyday forms of ‘living with difference’ are only just emerging. Poland has become one of the biggest importers of migrant workers from outside of the EU in recent years. Drawing on five ethnographic cases of sports …
It's about mindset'. How do young migrants in Poland build their resilience
The aim of this article is to investigate how young migrants’resilience manifests in different spheres of their lives. Adaptingthe Keck and Sakdapolrak’s framework, we define resilience asbeing comprised of coping, adaptive and transformativecapacities. While coping capacities are a post-crisis short-termresponse, adaptive and transformation capacities encompassmore proactive and long-term planning. Drawing on interviewswith young Third Country N…
Between settlement, double return and re-emigration
Although research on return migration is growing, little is known about returnees’ plans and attitudes regarding further migration. This article contributes to the filling of this knowledge gap by studying the likelihood of engaging in further mobility among Polish and Lithuanian returnees. Using a mixed method approach we explore under which circumstances return migrants intent to stay in their country of origin permanently and what factors woul…
Agency of Migrant Youth in Hostile Sociopolitical Environments
This paper compares the integration of third-country youth in Poland and Hungary in two Central Eastern European contexts characterized by a hostile sociopolitical environment for migrants, right-wing policies, illiberalism, and regression in various related policy areas. Our article is based on a three-year EU-funded research project that investigated the integration of migrant youth in precarious circumstances (MIMY). It uses data from qualitat…
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees
The reintegration of return migrants has been an important issue in migration studies for several decades. While much research has been done to identify returnees’ strategies and their labour market situation in their country of origin, little attention has been devoted to their attachment, especially in quantitative studies. This paper seeks to address this gap, analysing predictors of place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian r…
Do I deserve to belong? Migrants' perspectives on the debate of deservingness and belonging
The notion of belonging, prominent in social sciences, has been recently used extensively in relation to Central Eastern European migrants in the UK. Whereas the Brexit debates on migration have spotlighted the macro-politics of belonging and the judgments on who deserves to stay and under which conditions, the question of how these discourses of ‘deservingness’ surrounding Brexit may influence the everyday and intimate aspects of belonging among…
Niejednoznaczny wpływ Brexitu na życie młodych Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii
Ambiguous impact of Brexit on young Poles living in the United Kingdom The paper aims to analyse the impact of Brexit on the social anchoring of young Poles in the United Kingdom in four spheres of their lives: decision and return plans; application for British citizenship; buying properties; well-being and life satisfaction. The article is based on research conducted within the project „CEEYouth: The comparative study of young migrants from Pola…
Ethics of relational and representational disclosures in qualitative migration research
Purpose This article engages with the framework of performativity to unpack ethical challenges of interviewing migrants in the setting of shared ethnic background of researchers and participants. From a temporal perspective of shifting contexts from a shared space of the research process, to the post-research reciprocity management, it focusses on the particular aspect of disclosure. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on several qualitative stud…
Bees & butterflies
The result of the Brexit referendum and subsequent uncertainty regarding its actual consequences, particularly for the EU citizens living in the UK, constitutes a major point of reference and a social risk for many Polish migrants. Drawing on two qualitative research projects with a data set of 71 semi-structured interviews, this paper aims at analysing post-Brexit strategies of Polish migrants in Britain, taking into account their anchoring and …
Questionable Insiders
This article addresses methodological issues related to the consequences of researchers' range of insider identities that emerge over the course of completing subsequent stages of qualitative migration research projects. Taking on a temporal approach to the insider status evolving over the course of field entry, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination, this article engages with nuanced insider positionalities. These range from apparent,…
Private empowerment and public isolation
While the lives of migrant women are predominantly portrayed as inherently problematic, limited attention has been given to their experiences of empowerment and disempowerment. The maternal power framework is used in this article to study Polish migrant mothers and their children. Bringing together two studies to showcase an intergenerational perspective of the realms of migrant motherhood, the authors present evidence from (1) the stories of wom…
Self-positioning as a man in transnational contexts
The majority of research on migrant men is focused on critical analyses regarding the domestic sphere, family relations, power and equality. The analysis is often based on a juxtaposition of migrant and Western patterns of masculinity. Little attention is paid to young, highly skilled, single migrants who may experience challenges regarding their gender role as they change countries. Among adolescents and young adults, different visions of mascul…
Do I deserve to belong? Migrants' perspectives on the debate of deservingness and belonging
The notion of belonging, prominent in social sciences, has been recently used extensively in relation to Central Eastern European migrants in the UK. Whereas the Brexit debates on migration have spotlighted the macro-politics of belonging and the judgments on who deserves to stay and under which conditions, the question of how these discourses of ‘deservingness’ surrounding Brexit may influence the everyday and intimate aspects of belonging among…
Bees & butterflies
The result of the Brexit referendum and subsequent uncertainty regarding its actual consequences, particularly for the EU citizens living in the UK, constitutes a major point of reference and a social risk for many Polish migrants. Drawing on two qualitative research projects with a data set of 71 semi-structured interviews, this paper aims at analysing post-Brexit strategies of Polish migrants in Britain, taking into account their anchoring and …
Questionable Insiders
This article addresses methodological issues related to the consequences of researchers' range of insider identities that emerge over the course of completing subsequent stages of qualitative migration research projects. Taking on a temporal approach to the insider status evolving over the course of field entry, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination, this article engages with nuanced insider positionalities. These range from apparent,…
Agency of Migrant Youth in Hostile Sociopolitical Environments
This paper compares the integration of third-country youth in Poland and Hungary in two Central Eastern European contexts characterized by a hostile sociopolitical environment for migrants, right-wing policies, illiberalism, and regression in various related policy areas. Our article is based on a three-year EU-funded research project that investigated the integration of migrant youth in precarious circumstances (MIMY). It uses data from qualitat…
Between settlement, double return and re-emigration
Although research on return migration is growing, little is known about returnees’ plans and attitudes regarding further migration. This article contributes to the filling of this knowledge gap by studying the likelihood of engaging in further mobility among Polish and Lithuanian returnees. Using a mixed method approach we explore under which circumstances return migrants intent to stay in their country of origin permanently and what factors woul…
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees
The reintegration of return migrants has been an important issue in migration studies for several decades. While much research has been done to identify returnees’ strategies and their labour market situation in their country of origin, little attention has been devoted to their attachment, especially in quantitative studies. This paper seeks to address this gap, analysing predictors of place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian r…
Self-positioning as a man in transnational contexts
The majority of research on migrant men is focused on critical analyses regarding the domestic sphere, family relations, power and equality. The analysis is often based on a juxtaposition of migrant and Western patterns of masculinity. Little attention is paid to young, highly skilled, single migrants who may experience challenges regarding their gender role as they change countries. Among adolescents and young adults, different visions of mascul…
Football was the key’
While there is a growing body of literature examining the roles of sports for newly arrived migrants and refugees in ‘super-diverse’ Western settings, less is known about the roles of such initiatives in other urban contexts, where everyday forms of ‘living with difference’ are only just emerging. Poland has become one of the biggest importers of migrant workers from outside of the EU in recent years. Drawing on five ethnographic cases of sports …
It's about mindset'. How do young migrants in Poland build their resilience
The aim of this article is to investigate how young migrants’resilience manifests in different spheres of their lives. Adaptingthe Keck and Sakdapolrak’s framework, we define resilience asbeing comprised of coping, adaptive and transformativecapacities. While coping capacities are a post-crisis short-termresponse, adaptive and transformation capacities encompassmore proactive and long-term planning. Drawing on interviewswith young Third Country N…
Ethics of relational and representational disclosures in qualitative migration research
Purpose This article engages with the framework of performativity to unpack ethical challenges of interviewing migrants in the setting of shared ethnic background of researchers and participants. From a temporal perspective of shifting contexts from a shared space of the research process, to the post-research reciprocity management, it focusses on the particular aspect of disclosure. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on several qualitative stud…
Self-positioning as a man in transnational contexts
The majority of research on migrant men is focused on critical analyses regarding the domestic sphere, family relations, power and equality. The analysis is often based on a juxtaposition of migrant and Western patterns of masculinity. Little attention is paid to young, highly skilled, single migrants who may experience challenges regarding their gender role as they change countries. Among adolescents and young adults, different visions of mascul…
Private empowerment and public isolation
While the lives of migrant women are predominantly portrayed as inherently problematic, limited attention has been given to their experiences of empowerment and disempowerment. The maternal power framework is used in this article to study Polish migrant mothers and their children. Bringing together two studies to showcase an intergenerational perspective of the realms of migrant motherhood, the authors present evidence from (1) the stories of wom…
Questionable Insiders
This article addresses methodological issues related to the consequences of researchers' range of insider identities that emerge over the course of completing subsequent stages of qualitative migration research projects. Taking on a temporal approach to the insider status evolving over the course of field entry, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination, this article engages with nuanced insider positionalities. These range from apparent,…
Niejednoznaczny wpływ Brexitu na życie młodych Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii
Ambiguous impact of Brexit on young Poles living in the United Kingdom The paper aims to analyse the impact of Brexit on the social anchoring of young Poles in the United Kingdom in four spheres of their lives: decision and return plans; application for British citizenship; buying properties; well-being and life satisfaction. The article is based on research conducted within the project „CEEYouth: The comparative study of young migrants from Pola…
Ethics of relational and representational disclosures in qualitative migration research
Purpose This article engages with the framework of performativity to unpack ethical challenges of interviewing migrants in the setting of shared ethnic background of researchers and participants. From a temporal perspective of shifting contexts from a shared space of the research process, to the post-research reciprocity management, it focusses on the particular aspect of disclosure. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on several qualitative stud…
Bees & butterflies
The result of the Brexit referendum and subsequent uncertainty regarding its actual consequences, particularly for the EU citizens living in the UK, constitutes a major point of reference and a social risk for many Polish migrants. Drawing on two qualitative research projects with a data set of 71 semi-structured interviews, this paper aims at analysing post-Brexit strategies of Polish migrants in Britain, taking into account their anchoring and …
Do I deserve to belong? Migrants' perspectives on the debate of deservingness and belonging
The notion of belonging, prominent in social sciences, has been recently used extensively in relation to Central Eastern European migrants in the UK. Whereas the Brexit debates on migration have spotlighted the macro-politics of belonging and the judgments on who deserves to stay and under which conditions, the question of how these discourses of ‘deservingness’ surrounding Brexit may influence the everyday and intimate aspects of belonging among…
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees
The reintegration of return migrants has been an important issue in migration studies for several decades. While much research has been done to identify returnees’ strategies and their labour market situation in their country of origin, little attention has been devoted to their attachment, especially in quantitative studies. This paper seeks to address this gap, analysing predictors of place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian r…
Between settlement, double return and re-emigration
Although research on return migration is growing, little is known about returnees’ plans and attitudes regarding further migration. This article contributes to the filling of this knowledge gap by studying the likelihood of engaging in further mobility among Polish and Lithuanian returnees. Using a mixed method approach we explore under which circumstances return migrants intent to stay in their country of origin permanently and what factors woul…
Agency of Migrant Youth in Hostile Sociopolitical Environments
This paper compares the integration of third-country youth in Poland and Hungary in two Central Eastern European contexts characterized by a hostile sociopolitical environment for migrants, right-wing policies, illiberalism, and regression in various related policy areas. Our article is based on a three-year EU-funded research project that investigated the integration of migrant youth in precarious circumstances (MIMY). It uses data from qualitat…
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance
Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed…
Enhancing benefits for peer researchers
The involvement of peer researchers has recently gained popularity insocial research, and the incentives for using participatory methodologiesare well recognised. However, as we argue, the sole presence of peerresearchers does not equate to their immediate empowerment, and moreattention should be given to the roles they play in the research and theways in which they can tangibly benefit from such collaborations. Weexplore the seemingly mundane as…
Football was the key’
While there is a growing body of literature examining the roles of sports for newly arrived migrants and refugees in ‘super-diverse’ Western settings, less is known about the roles of such initiatives in other urban contexts, where everyday forms of ‘living with difference’ are only just emerging. Poland has become one of the biggest importers of migrant workers from outside of the EU in recent years. Drawing on five ethnographic cases of sports …
It's about mindset'. How do young migrants in Poland build their resilience
The aim of this article is to investigate how young migrants’resilience manifests in different spheres of their lives. Adaptingthe Keck and Sakdapolrak’s framework, we define resilience asbeing comprised of coping, adaptive and transformativecapacities. While coping capacities are a post-crisis short-termresponse, adaptive and transformation capacities encompassmore proactive and long-term planning. Drawing on interviewswith young Third Country N…
Diaspora in times of war
The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine mobilized Ukrainian diasporas worldwide in support of their homeland. While the invasion prompted widespread protests and fundraising, the forms of local and transnational engagement undertaken by Ukrainians abroad have varied considerably. Using a comparative approach, this article explains diverse patterns of diasporic mobilization by examining how dynamics of mobilizing structures, host state stance t…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)