Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła
Biographic Data
| ID | 224741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karolina |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikielska-Sekuła |
| SIGNATURE | NIKIELSKA-SEKUŁA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7311-0900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feeling the Field: An Exploration of a Multisensory Positionality in Migration Research
This article, based on three research vignettes featuring methodological reflections from the visual and multisensory research on international migrations conducted in Norway and Poland, introduces the concept of multisensory positionality. Grounded in the theoretical discussions around positionality developed in migration studies, and supported by the sensuous scholarship, multisensory positionality is a holistic, intersectional approach that re…
Embodied Transnational Belonging
This article, based on a collection of 53 interviews with people who migrated from Poland to Norway, discusses how transnational sentiments, nostalgia, and attachments to places and people materialize through the bodily experiences of the mobile subjects. It conceptualizes the notion of embodied transnational belonging, understood as a dynamic, bodily felt materialization of social, cultural, political, economic, and affective processes that assi…
Dignity as a method. Pluriversal dignity approaches in place-based visual research on migration and its implications for governance
In this article, we propose building on the concept of ‘pluriversal dignity’ as a method integral to visual research conducted through a place-based approach to migration. We draw attention to the lack of a consistent definition of ‘dignity’ and the fact that it is context-dependent, as this is where, in our view, its potential lies for visual, place-based research on migration. In fact, for migration scholars, the potential for encounters betwee…
Migrants as heritage makers: Micro Practices and Multiscalar Perspectives in Post-Migration Cultural Heritage Participation
This paper explores migrants’ engagement with cultural heritage, approached at the micro level of individual practices and offering a novel model of migrants’ participation in cultural heritage. Grounded in critical heritage studies and recent developments of migration studies, it bridges these fields by applying spatiotemporal and multiscalar perspectives to analyse how migrants negotiate, adapt and redefine their processual, performative herita…
Multisensory approaches in migration studies
Mapping multisensory migration research
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective
Multisensory approaches in migration research: Reflections and pathways
Yet, the ‘sensuous scholarship’ is not always considered in the systematic methodological process when visual methodologies are at stake. The aim of this paper is to problematise this stance in the context of the particular field of migration research. Our aim is to ‘de-essentialise the visual’ by presenting cases from our studies on immigrant communities in Norway, Turkey, Israel, and Portugal, and to exemplify how the embodied knowledge gained …
Heritage of Migrants in a National Museum
This article discusses the case of migrants' heritage inclusion into the mainstream through the lens of theoretical perspectives originating from both the heritage and migration studies fields.It presents a case study of the event Jul p Polsk organised by the Norwegian Folk Museum in the years 2016-2018 and compares it to the findings from the study focusing on the individual engagement with Christmas heritage by the Poles settled in Norway.The a…
(Inter)Cultural Heritage and Inclusion for Migrants - Bridging the Gap
Cultural heritage has traditionally been studied within two realms: that of the nation-state, and that of other institutionalising bodies such as UNESCO. Scholars have highlighted a tendency in the
“Have You Just Taken a Picture of Me?”: Theoretical and Ethical Implications of the Use of Researcher-Produced Photography in Studying Migrant Minorities
This paper aims at discussing the value of researcher-generated visual methods in studying migration. It focuses on photography as a data collection method, and the problem is presented in the context of researching urban and rural arenas of exercising transnational belonging by migrants and their descendants in new and ancestral homelands. Photography is approached here as a sensorial experience mediating a relationship between the researcher an…
Towards a transdimensional home: Home-making in the narrations of Norwegians of Turkish descent
Building on current scholarship and empirical evidence from the research conducted by the author on Norwegian Turkish communities in the city of Drammen, Norway, this paper discusses the process of home-making by the descendants of Turkish immigrants in Norway, the so-called second- and third-generation. By doing so it develops a model of a transdimensional home that attempts to embrace the multiple and seemingly contradictory meanings and reflec…
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions
Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities
This paper problematises the engagement with heritage of immigrants and their new-homeland-born children, bringing together heritage and migration studies. It discusses the use of ancestral heritage in group identity maintenance strategies, and sheds light on minorities’ participation in the heritage of the dominant population. The paper investigates how the ancestral heritage of immigrant minorities has adjusted to the circumstances of the new h…
The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging among Young Norwegian Turks: Boundary Making and Crossing
This paper discusses the importance that cultural heritage has for Norwegians of Turkish decent when it comes to negotiating both their belonging and the concept of home. The role of heritage in making and crossing the boundaries of ethnicity is also discussed here. I argue that Norwegian Turks have developed a multi-layered sense of belonging based on the identification with groups and places located both in Turkey and in Norway. They participat…
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions
Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities
This paper problematises the engagement with heritage of immigrants and their new-homeland-born children, bringing together heritage and migration studies. It discusses the use of ancestral heritage in group identity maintenance strategies, and sheds light on minorities’ participation in the heritage of the dominant population. The paper investigates how the ancestral heritage of immigrant minorities has adjusted to the circumstances of the new h…
Multisensory approaches in migration studies
Embodied Transnational Belonging
This article, based on a collection of 53 interviews with people who migrated from Poland to Norway, discusses how transnational sentiments, nostalgia, and attachments to places and people materialize through the bodily experiences of the mobile subjects. It conceptualizes the notion of embodied transnational belonging, understood as a dynamic, bodily felt materialization of social, cultural, political, economic, and affective processes that assi…
Mapping multisensory migration research
Towards a transdimensional home: Home-making in the narrations of Norwegians of Turkish descent
Building on current scholarship and empirical evidence from the research conducted by the author on Norwegian Turkish communities in the city of Drammen, Norway, this paper discusses the process of home-making by the descendants of Turkish immigrants in Norway, the so-called second- and third-generation. By doing so it develops a model of a transdimensional home that attempts to embrace the multiple and seemingly contradictory meanings and reflec…
The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging among Young Norwegian Turks: Boundary Making and Crossing
This paper discusses the importance that cultural heritage has for Norwegians of Turkish decent when it comes to negotiating both their belonging and the concept of home. The role of heritage in making and crossing the boundaries of ethnicity is also discussed here. I argue that Norwegian Turks have developed a multi-layered sense of belonging based on the identification with groups and places located both in Turkey and in Norway. They participat…
Heritage of Migrants in a National Museum
This article discusses the case of migrants' heritage inclusion into the mainstream through the lens of theoretical perspectives originating from both the heritage and migration studies fields.It presents a case study of the event Jul p Polsk organised by the Norwegian Folk Museum in the years 2016-2018 and compares it to the findings from the study focusing on the individual engagement with Christmas heritage by the Poles settled in Norway.The a…
(Inter)Cultural Heritage and Inclusion for Migrants - Bridging the Gap
Cultural heritage has traditionally been studied within two realms: that of the nation-state, and that of other institutionalising bodies such as UNESCO. Scholars have highlighted a tendency in the
The Role of Cultural Heritage in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging among Young Norwegian Turks: Boundary Making and Crossing
This paper discusses the importance that cultural heritage has for Norwegians of Turkish decent when it comes to negotiating both their belonging and the concept of home. The role of heritage in making and crossing the boundaries of ethnicity is also discussed here. I argue that Norwegian Turks have developed a multi-layered sense of belonging based on the identification with groups and places located both in Turkey and in Norway. They participat…
Migrating heritage? Recreating ancestral and new homeland heritage in the practices of immigrant minorities
This paper problematises the engagement with heritage of immigrants and their new-homeland-born children, bringing together heritage and migration studies. It discusses the use of ancestral heritage in group identity maintenance strategies, and sheds light on minorities’ participation in the heritage of the dominant population. The paper investigates how the ancestral heritage of immigrant minorities has adjusted to the circumstances of the new h…
“Have You Just Taken a Picture of Me?”: Theoretical and Ethical Implications of the Use of Researcher-Produced Photography in Studying Migrant Minorities
This paper aims at discussing the value of researcher-generated visual methods in studying migration. It focuses on photography as a data collection method, and the problem is presented in the context of researching urban and rural arenas of exercising transnational belonging by migrants and their descendants in new and ancestral homelands. Photography is approached here as a sensorial experience mediating a relationship between the researcher an…
Towards a transdimensional home: Home-making in the narrations of Norwegians of Turkish descent
Building on current scholarship and empirical evidence from the research conducted by the author on Norwegian Turkish communities in the city of Drammen, Norway, this paper discusses the process of home-making by the descendants of Turkish immigrants in Norway, the so-called second- and third-generation. By doing so it develops a model of a transdimensional home that attempts to embrace the multiple and seemingly contradictory meanings and reflec…
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions
Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective
Multisensory approaches in migration research: Reflections and pathways
Yet, the ‘sensuous scholarship’ is not always considered in the systematic methodological process when visual methodologies are at stake. The aim of this paper is to problematise this stance in the context of the particular field of migration research. Our aim is to ‘de-essentialise the visual’ by presenting cases from our studies on immigrant communities in Norway, Turkey, Israel, and Portugal, and to exemplify how the embodied knowledge gained …
Heritage of Migrants in a National Museum
This article discusses the case of migrants' heritage inclusion into the mainstream through the lens of theoretical perspectives originating from both the heritage and migration studies fields.It presents a case study of the event Jul p Polsk organised by the Norwegian Folk Museum in the years 2016-2018 and compares it to the findings from the study focusing on the individual engagement with Christmas heritage by the Poles settled in Norway.The a…
(Inter)Cultural Heritage and Inclusion for Migrants - Bridging the Gap
Cultural heritage has traditionally been studied within two realms: that of the nation-state, and that of other institutionalising bodies such as UNESCO. Scholars have highlighted a tendency in the
Dignity as a method. Pluriversal dignity approaches in place-based visual research on migration and its implications for governance
In this article, we propose building on the concept of ‘pluriversal dignity’ as a method integral to visual research conducted through a place-based approach to migration. We draw attention to the lack of a consistent definition of ‘dignity’ and the fact that it is context-dependent, as this is where, in our view, its potential lies for visual, place-based research on migration. In fact, for migration scholars, the potential for encounters betwee…
Migrants as heritage makers: Micro Practices and Multiscalar Perspectives in Post-Migration Cultural Heritage Participation
This paper explores migrants’ engagement with cultural heritage, approached at the micro level of individual practices and offering a novel model of migrants’ participation in cultural heritage. Grounded in critical heritage studies and recent developments of migration studies, it bridges these fields by applying spatiotemporal and multiscalar perspectives to analyse how migrants negotiate, adapt and redefine their processual, performative herita…
Multisensory approaches in migration studies
Mapping multisensory migration research
Feeling the Field: An Exploration of a Multisensory Positionality in Migration Research
This article, based on three research vignettes featuring methodological reflections from the visual and multisensory research on international migrations conducted in Norway and Poland, introduces the concept of multisensory positionality. Grounded in the theoretical discussions around positionality developed in migration studies, and supported by the sensuous scholarship, multisensory positionality is a holistic, intersectional approach that re…
Embodied Transnational Belonging
This article, based on a collection of 53 interviews with people who migrated from Poland to Norway, discusses how transnational sentiments, nostalgia, and attachments to places and people materialize through the bodily experiences of the mobile subjects. It conceptualizes the notion of embodied transnational belonging, understood as a dynamic, bodily felt materialization of social, cultural, political, economic, and affective processes that assi…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (5 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (5 works) · Visual research (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Cultural heritage (4 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works)