Michał P Garapich
Biographic Data
| ID | 235720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michał P Garapich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michał P |
| FAMILY NAME | Garapich |
| SIGNATURE | GARAPICH M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0248-6780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dynamics of transnational tokenism: Minority engagements with the far right in Britain and Poland
Tokenism involves organizations making a superficial but usually widely publicized effort to include members of social minorities in order to appear inclusive and egalitarian. In the case of far-right groups, tokenism is used to refute accusations of racism and boost political legitimacy. Specific forms of tokenism are affected by political context with fewer incentives to engage in it for far-right organizations operating in less diverse countri…
Solidarność from Gdańsk in 1980 to Calgary in 2022: Political remitting and glocalization of symbols across time and space
This article brings together two very different political organizations: Poland’s Solidarność established in 1980 and the Solidarity Movement of Alberta created in 2022 by Artur Pawlowski, a far-right pastor who claims inspiration from the Polish trade union. The differences between the two organizations embody some fundamental changes that have shaped politics in the last half-century, and we take a bird-eye view of them to shed light on recent …
National populists of Christian Europe, unite! Exploring civilizationist alliances in the British far right
Between civilisation, race, and nation: Transnational dimensions of far-right activism in post-Brexit Britain
Immigrants are usually studied as targets of the far right, not as participants in it. Addressing this gap, the article examines Polish immigrants’ involvement in Britain’s far-right politics, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 2023 and 2025. It explores how far-right actors stretch categories of ‘nativeness’ to include some immigrants, justifying this through civilisational or racial arguments depending on ideolog…
Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain
Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this contradiction. Drawing on interviews with Polish migrants and observer participation in their political rituals,…
Gadzikano, Romano ciacipen, czyli w stronę dekolonizacji badań romologicznych
Serdecznie witamy na eJournals. Portalu Czasopism Naukowych! eJournals to nie tylko platforma do publikowana online, ale również doświadczony zespół Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oferujący wsparcie dla Redakcji czasopism w zakresie prowadzenia i rozwoju Czasopisma. Misją eJournals jest wspieranie polskich naukowców oraz zapewnienie przedstawicielom redakcji Czasopism profesjonalnej pomocy w ciągłym podnoszeniu ich poziomu i utrzymaniu …
Czy Bóg to Gadzio? Religijność i konwersje polskich Romów w perspektywie elastycznych epistemologii romskości
The article is an anthropological analysis of religious conversions among Polish Roma. Through pioneering ethnographic work among transnational Roma communities, the article takes a critical approach to contemporary analysis of religious lives of Roma in Polish scholarship. Following the relational approach of Frederik Barth, Michael Stewart and participatory ethnography of Paloma Gay y Blasco, the article proposes an ethnographically grounded in…
Sex, lies, and memoirs: On writing intimate ethnography, dealing with silence and ethically ambiguous storytelling
This article uses the notion of intimate ethnography to further a discussion on social constructions of family ties, secrets and complex strategies of storytelling. Using the example of a book published about one’s own family history, the author presents several ethical dilemmas where engagement with intimate ethnographies is fraught with pitfalls and can tear apart people, families and individuals; however, it can also give a brief and illuminat…
Immigrants in the Transnational Far Right: Integration through Racisms and Negotiating White Supremacy in a Migratory Context
Despite the historical and contemporary instances of immigrants and their descendants engaging with the far-right, whether through long-distance nationalism or country of residence politics, migration scholarship has surprisingly paid very little attention to this process. In this paper we argue that insufficient engagement with instances of the far-right attracting and mobilizing immigrants and ethnic minorities is a theoretical omission in both…
Unequal Citizenship and Ethnic Boundaries in the Migration Experience of Polish Roma
Since the early 1990s, large numbers of Polish Roma have emigrated, mainly to Germany and Great Britain. Unlike the migration of Polish (non-Roma) citizens there was an intriguing silence regarding the migration of this ethnic group. The absence of Roma in the grand narrative of migrations from Poland, as we argue, suggests that the notion of belonging and citizenship were unequally distributed among Poland’s population. Based on our ongoing ethn…
There is a wide path and there is a narrow path' - transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah's Witnesses
The literature on Roma mobilities within migration studies has, so far, not explored sufficiently the role of religion in ethnic mobilisation and minority politics, with all the attention on the political and social significance of Pentecostalism, especially in Romania. Through an ethnographic focus on the unexplored social worlds of Roma in Polish-speaking Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations, this article aims to bridge this gap and brings forward…
Why Do Roma Migrate? A Critical Analysis of Academic Silence in Polish Scholarship
The article discusses the case of academic silence with regards to the migration of Roma from Poland – both in Polish Romani studies and in migration studies. The absence of Romani migration in migration research in Poland is contrasted with the absence of the subject of migration in Romani studies, offering a glimpse into fundamental assumptions, and politically and ideologically determined paradigms within both areas. Paradoxically, the group a…
Les enfants de Kazimierz
Creuser et écrire. Essai post-scriptum
Polish Roma Migrations - Transnationalism and Identity in Anthropological Perspective
Until recently, the migration of Polish Roma has not been a subject of an academic inquiry. This article aim is to shed light on some issues related to transnational living and identity of Polish Roma in anthropological perspective1. The findings of our research suggest that Roma migrations from Poland are not categorically different from non-Roma population and in fact are integral and socially connected part of history of migrations from Poland…
Migrants as Agents of Change
This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrate
Social remittances and intra-EU mobility: Non-financial transfers between U.K. and Poland
The massive rise in intra-European Union (EU) mobility in recent decades has spawned several important social and cultural phenomena that are still not covered by academic research. Social remittances – the transfer of ideas, practices, codes of behaviours, values and norms between the place of origin and destination are an important aspect of social change and modernity and they are still to be explored and documented. However, not all migrants …
Breaking borders, changing structures - transnationalism of migrants from Poland as anti-state resistance
Among the many meanings of transnationalism(s), the political significance of transnational action from the perspective of individual migrants does not always gain enough attention. It is usually framed as a way transnational migration processes affect the state, how social movements formed in the diaspora compete for the stake in the home country or how a particular state manages its diaspora through various policy means. This article will call …
Migration Strategies of Polish Migrants: Do They Have Any at All
Debates have persisted about the character of the East–West population flows that followed the EU expansions. Some of the discussions surround the extent to which the mobility has been temporal and hence how likely these migrants are to settle permanently or to stay for long periods in host countries. This paper enhances the understanding of such issues through examining survey data on 700 Polish recent migrants in seven English and Welsh towns a…
Homo Sovieticus Revisited – Anti‐Institutionalism, Alcohol and Resistance Among Polish Homeless Men in London
This article looks at the issue of the dramatic rise of street homelessness in London among Polish migrants from the perspective of social anthropology looking at the relationship between structural constraints faced by Polish migrants and their own perception of the social world, their meaning‐making practices, norms and values, behavioral patterns. As I will show, focusing just on structural and economic determinants not only offers a simplisti…
Je suis parti juste comme ça: Le discours migratoire et ses contestations
En 1985, un disciple de Florian Znaniecki, le professeur Jerzy Zubrzycki, fut invité à donner une conférence à l’University College de Londres intitulée « Soldats et paysans : sociologie de la migration polonaise ». Les concepts mobilisés au cours de cette conférence sont un excellent exemple du discours dominant relatif aux migrations, caractéristique de la culture polonaise. Celui-ci est formé par un nationalisme méthodologique et des structure…
Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom was one of only three countries to allow migrants from accession countries to enter their labour markets more or less without restriction following European Union enlargement in May 2004. Therefore, it is important to establish the characteristics and labour market performance of migrants from these countries who have subsequently entered the United Kingdom. We principally analyse Labour Force Survey data to compare the labour …
The Migration Industry and Civil Society: Polish Immigrants in the United Kingdom Before and After EU Enlargement
Focusing on Polish migrants in the UK, this article seeks to emphasise the role of market forces in immigrants’ pathways to inclusion in the social and economic system of the host society. The traditional agents of civil society—voluntary organisations, state policies, the Polish Church or advocacy networks—have, before and after EU enlargement, been less prominent in responding to the immediate needs of recent migrants for information, networks …
Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom was one of only three countries to allow migrants from accession countries to enter their labour markets more or less without restriction following European Union enlargement in May 2004. Therefore, it is important to establish the characteristics and labour market performance of migrants from these countries who have subsequently entered the United Kingdom. We principally analyse Labour Force Survey data to compare the labour …
The Migration Industry and Civil Society: Polish Immigrants in the United Kingdom Before and After EU Enlargement
Focusing on Polish migrants in the UK, this article seeks to emphasise the role of market forces in immigrants’ pathways to inclusion in the social and economic system of the host society. The traditional agents of civil society—voluntary organisations, state policies, the Polish Church or advocacy networks—have, before and after EU enlargement, been less prominent in responding to the immediate needs of recent migrants for information, networks …
Migration Strategies of Polish Migrants: Do They Have Any at All
Debates have persisted about the character of the East–West population flows that followed the EU expansions. Some of the discussions surround the extent to which the mobility has been temporal and hence how likely these migrants are to settle permanently or to stay for long periods in host countries. This paper enhances the understanding of such issues through examining survey data on 700 Polish recent migrants in seven English and Welsh towns a…
Social remittances and intra-EU mobility: Non-financial transfers between U.K. and Poland
The massive rise in intra-European Union (EU) mobility in recent decades has spawned several important social and cultural phenomena that are still not covered by academic research. Social remittances – the transfer of ideas, practices, codes of behaviours, values and norms between the place of origin and destination are an important aspect of social change and modernity and they are still to be explored and documented. However, not all migrants …
Immigrants in the Transnational Far Right: Integration through Racisms and Negotiating White Supremacy in a Migratory Context
Despite the historical and contemporary instances of immigrants and their descendants engaging with the far-right, whether through long-distance nationalism or country of residence politics, migration scholarship has surprisingly paid very little attention to this process. In this paper we argue that insufficient engagement with instances of the far-right attracting and mobilizing immigrants and ethnic minorities is a theoretical omission in both…
Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain
Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this contradiction. Drawing on interviews with Polish migrants and observer participation in their political rituals,…
Homo Sovieticus Revisited – Anti‐Institutionalism, Alcohol and Resistance Among Polish Homeless Men in London
This article looks at the issue of the dramatic rise of street homelessness in London among Polish migrants from the perspective of social anthropology looking at the relationship between structural constraints faced by Polish migrants and their own perception of the social world, their meaning‐making practices, norms and values, behavioral patterns. As I will show, focusing just on structural and economic determinants not only offers a simplisti…
Sex, lies, and memoirs: On writing intimate ethnography, dealing with silence and ethically ambiguous storytelling
This article uses the notion of intimate ethnography to further a discussion on social constructions of family ties, secrets and complex strategies of storytelling. Using the example of a book published about one’s own family history, the author presents several ethical dilemmas where engagement with intimate ethnographies is fraught with pitfalls and can tear apart people, families and individuals; however, it can also give a brief and illuminat…
Polish Roma Migrations - Transnationalism and Identity in Anthropological Perspective
Until recently, the migration of Polish Roma has not been a subject of an academic inquiry. This article aim is to shed light on some issues related to transnational living and identity of Polish Roma in anthropological perspective1. The findings of our research suggest that Roma migrations from Poland are not categorically different from non-Roma population and in fact are integral and socially connected part of history of migrations from Poland…
Breaking borders, changing structures - transnationalism of migrants from Poland as anti-state resistance
Among the many meanings of transnationalism(s), the political significance of transnational action from the perspective of individual migrants does not always gain enough attention. It is usually framed as a way transnational migration processes affect the state, how social movements formed in the diaspora compete for the stake in the home country or how a particular state manages its diaspora through various policy means. This article will call …
Je suis parti juste comme ça: Le discours migratoire et ses contestations
En 1985, un disciple de Florian Znaniecki, le professeur Jerzy Zubrzycki, fut invité à donner une conférence à l’University College de Londres intitulée « Soldats et paysans : sociologie de la migration polonaise ». Les concepts mobilisés au cours de cette conférence sont un excellent exemple du discours dominant relatif aux migrations, caractéristique de la culture polonaise. Celui-ci est formé par un nationalisme méthodologique et des structure…
National populists of Christian Europe, unite! Exploring civilizationist alliances in the British far right
Between civilisation, race, and nation: Transnational dimensions of far-right activism in post-Brexit Britain
Immigrants are usually studied as targets of the far right, not as participants in it. Addressing this gap, the article examines Polish immigrants’ involvement in Britain’s far-right politics, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 2023 and 2025. It explores how far-right actors stretch categories of ‘nativeness’ to include some immigrants, justifying this through civilisational or racial arguments depending on ideolog…
Unequal Citizenship and Ethnic Boundaries in the Migration Experience of Polish Roma
Since the early 1990s, large numbers of Polish Roma have emigrated, mainly to Germany and Great Britain. Unlike the migration of Polish (non-Roma) citizens there was an intriguing silence regarding the migration of this ethnic group. The absence of Roma in the grand narrative of migrations from Poland, as we argue, suggests that the notion of belonging and citizenship were unequally distributed among Poland’s population. Based on our ongoing ethn…
The Migration Industry and Civil Society: Polish Immigrants in the United Kingdom Before and After EU Enlargement
Focusing on Polish migrants in the UK, this article seeks to emphasise the role of market forces in immigrants’ pathways to inclusion in the social and economic system of the host society. The traditional agents of civil society—voluntary organisations, state policies, the Polish Church or advocacy networks—have, before and after EU enlargement, been less prominent in responding to the immediate needs of recent migrants for information, networks …
Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom was one of only three countries to allow migrants from accession countries to enter their labour markets more or less without restriction following European Union enlargement in May 2004. Therefore, it is important to establish the characteristics and labour market performance of migrants from these countries who have subsequently entered the United Kingdom. We principally analyse Labour Force Survey data to compare the labour …
Je suis parti juste comme ça: Le discours migratoire et ses contestations
En 1985, un disciple de Florian Znaniecki, le professeur Jerzy Zubrzycki, fut invité à donner une conférence à l’University College de Londres intitulée « Soldats et paysans : sociologie de la migration polonaise ». Les concepts mobilisés au cours de cette conférence sont un excellent exemple du discours dominant relatif aux migrations, caractéristique de la culture polonaise. Celui-ci est formé par un nationalisme méthodologique et des structure…
Homo Sovieticus Revisited – Anti‐Institutionalism, Alcohol and Resistance Among Polish Homeless Men in London
This article looks at the issue of the dramatic rise of street homelessness in London among Polish migrants from the perspective of social anthropology looking at the relationship between structural constraints faced by Polish migrants and their own perception of the social world, their meaning‐making practices, norms and values, behavioral patterns. As I will show, focusing just on structural and economic determinants not only offers a simplisti…
Migration Strategies of Polish Migrants: Do They Have Any at All
Debates have persisted about the character of the East–West population flows that followed the EU expansions. Some of the discussions surround the extent to which the mobility has been temporal and hence how likely these migrants are to settle permanently or to stay for long periods in host countries. This paper enhances the understanding of such issues through examining survey data on 700 Polish recent migrants in seven English and Welsh towns a…
Social remittances and intra-EU mobility: Non-financial transfers between U.K. and Poland
The massive rise in intra-European Union (EU) mobility in recent decades has spawned several important social and cultural phenomena that are still not covered by academic research. Social remittances – the transfer of ideas, practices, codes of behaviours, values and norms between the place of origin and destination are an important aspect of social change and modernity and they are still to be explored and documented. However, not all migrants …
Breaking borders, changing structures - transnationalism of migrants from Poland as anti-state resistance
Among the many meanings of transnationalism(s), the political significance of transnational action from the perspective of individual migrants does not always gain enough attention. It is usually framed as a way transnational migration processes affect the state, how social movements formed in the diaspora compete for the stake in the home country or how a particular state manages its diaspora through various policy means. This article will call …
Migrants as Agents of Change
This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrate
Polish Roma Migrations - Transnationalism and Identity in Anthropological Perspective
Until recently, the migration of Polish Roma has not been a subject of an academic inquiry. This article aim is to shed light on some issues related to transnational living and identity of Polish Roma in anthropological perspective1. The findings of our research suggest that Roma migrations from Poland are not categorically different from non-Roma population and in fact are integral and socially connected part of history of migrations from Poland…
Why Do Roma Migrate? A Critical Analysis of Academic Silence in Polish Scholarship
The article discusses the case of academic silence with regards to the migration of Roma from Poland – both in Polish Romani studies and in migration studies. The absence of Romani migration in migration research in Poland is contrasted with the absence of the subject of migration in Romani studies, offering a glimpse into fundamental assumptions, and politically and ideologically determined paradigms within both areas. Paradoxically, the group a…
Les enfants de Kazimierz
Creuser et écrire. Essai post-scriptum
Gadzikano, Romano ciacipen, czyli w stronę dekolonizacji badań romologicznych
Serdecznie witamy na eJournals. Portalu Czasopism Naukowych! eJournals to nie tylko platforma do publikowana online, ale również doświadczony zespół Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oferujący wsparcie dla Redakcji czasopism w zakresie prowadzenia i rozwoju Czasopisma. Misją eJournals jest wspieranie polskich naukowców oraz zapewnienie przedstawicielom redakcji Czasopism profesjonalnej pomocy w ciągłym podnoszeniu ich poziomu i utrzymaniu …
Czy Bóg to Gadzio? Religijność i konwersje polskich Romów w perspektywie elastycznych epistemologii romskości
The article is an anthropological analysis of religious conversions among Polish Roma. Through pioneering ethnographic work among transnational Roma communities, the article takes a critical approach to contemporary analysis of religious lives of Roma in Polish scholarship. Following the relational approach of Frederik Barth, Michael Stewart and participatory ethnography of Paloma Gay y Blasco, the article proposes an ethnographically grounded in…
Sex, lies, and memoirs: On writing intimate ethnography, dealing with silence and ethically ambiguous storytelling
This article uses the notion of intimate ethnography to further a discussion on social constructions of family ties, secrets and complex strategies of storytelling. Using the example of a book published about one’s own family history, the author presents several ethical dilemmas where engagement with intimate ethnographies is fraught with pitfalls and can tear apart people, families and individuals; however, it can also give a brief and illuminat…
Immigrants in the Transnational Far Right: Integration through Racisms and Negotiating White Supremacy in a Migratory Context
Despite the historical and contemporary instances of immigrants and their descendants engaging with the far-right, whether through long-distance nationalism or country of residence politics, migration scholarship has surprisingly paid very little attention to this process. In this paper we argue that insufficient engagement with instances of the far-right attracting and mobilizing immigrants and ethnic minorities is a theoretical omission in both…
Unequal Citizenship and Ethnic Boundaries in the Migration Experience of Polish Roma
Since the early 1990s, large numbers of Polish Roma have emigrated, mainly to Germany and Great Britain. Unlike the migration of Polish (non-Roma) citizens there was an intriguing silence regarding the migration of this ethnic group. The absence of Roma in the grand narrative of migrations from Poland, as we argue, suggests that the notion of belonging and citizenship were unequally distributed among Poland’s population. Based on our ongoing ethn…
There is a wide path and there is a narrow path' - transnational negotiations of ethnic and religious identity among Polish Roma Jehovah's Witnesses
The literature on Roma mobilities within migration studies has, so far, not explored sufficiently the role of religion in ethnic mobilisation and minority politics, with all the attention on the political and social significance of Pentecostalism, especially in Romania. Through an ethnographic focus on the unexplored social worlds of Roma in Polish-speaking Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations, this article aims to bridge this gap and brings forward…
Solidarność from Gdańsk in 1980 to Calgary in 2022: Political remitting and glocalization of symbols across time and space
This article brings together two very different political organizations: Poland’s Solidarność established in 1980 and the Solidarity Movement of Alberta created in 2022 by Artur Pawlowski, a far-right pastor who claims inspiration from the Polish trade union. The differences between the two organizations embody some fundamental changes that have shaped politics in the last half-century, and we take a bird-eye view of them to shed light on recent …
National populists of Christian Europe, unite! Exploring civilizationist alliances in the British far right
Between civilisation, race, and nation: Transnational dimensions of far-right activism in post-Brexit Britain
Immigrants are usually studied as targets of the far right, not as participants in it. Addressing this gap, the article examines Polish immigrants’ involvement in Britain’s far-right politics, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted between 2023 and 2025. It explores how far-right actors stretch categories of ‘nativeness’ to include some immigrants, justifying this through civilisational or racial arguments depending on ideolog…
Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain
Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this contradiction. Drawing on interviews with Polish migrants and observer participation in their political rituals,…
Dynamics of transnational tokenism: Minority engagements with the far right in Britain and Poland
Tokenism involves organizations making a superficial but usually widely publicized effort to include members of social minorities in order to appear inclusive and egalitarian. In the case of far-right groups, tokenism is used to refute accusations of racism and boost political legitimacy. Specific forms of tokenism are affected by political context with fewer incentives to engage in it for far-right organizations operating in less diverse countri…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (7 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works)