Magdalena Mostowska
Biographic Data
| ID | 308426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magdalena Mostowska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magdalena |
| FAMILY NAME | Mostowska |
| SIGNATURE | MOSTOWSKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7586-1898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Visible women, invisible gender: Knowledge production on homelessness in Flanders
Homelessness as a distinct social problem is a relatively recent social construct. Many women are thought to experience so-called ‘hidden homelessness’, which is said to be the cause of their under-representation in the data. However, data now show a higher proportion of women among those experiencing homelessness. In addition, current definitions explicitly include women’s specific experiences such as living under the threat of violence. This ar…
The Conspicuous Hidden Curriculum and Young Women’s Daily Lives in Polish Crisis Accommodation
This article examines the daily routine in crisis accommodation for young women in Poland, investigating the hidden curriculum that includes highly gendered norms and expectations regarding residents. The article considers local crisis centres and state-funded Specialist Centres for Victims of Domestic Violence as well as Single Mothers’ Homes, which provide long-term accommodation for mothers with dependent children. The analysed material has be…
Failing to Perform Citizenship: Daily Narratives About Stockholm's 'vulnerable EU citizens
The question of mobile Roma beggars in Europe has been analysed in terms of securitization, racialization, and deportability. These people have been hailed as 'abject' or 'failed' citizens, the problem of race being made largely invisible. In the Swedish context, the category of race does not emerge in overt form, and Swedes generally imagine themselves to be an egalitarian and just society. However, in Stockholm, in 2015, the unprecedented visib…
An ambiguous hierarchy of inequalities. The political intersectionality of older women's homelessness in Poland
This paper presents the most important findings from a research project on women’s homelessness in Poland, demonstrating that most Polish studies on homelessness fail to acknowledge its gender dimension, which remains unproblematized and unseen in the wider context of women’s position in society. Up until now feminist theorizing, and intersectionality in particular, has not been present in research on homelessness in Poland. The article adopts th…
Metaphors and Evidence. Producing Numbers in National Homelessness Counts
It has been a couple of decades since attempts have been made to measure the extent of homelessness at national levels in Europe. While these counts are essential for public policymaking, producing such statistics also (re)produces power-knowledge. The definitions and categories used in homelessness surveys indicate how it is understood as a social problem. In Europe, the Nordic countries have some of the most reliable and current figures on home…
We Shouldn't but We Do: Framing the Strategies for Helping Homeless EU migrants in Copenhagen and Dublin
Municipal and voluntary organisations providing services for the growing numbers of homeless EU migrants are faced with many inconsistencies and contradictions in these migrants' legal situation and their access to services. To see how official policies are realised in everyday practice, sixteen interviews have been conducted in Copenhagen and Dublin with various representatives of organisations that support homeless EU migrants. A typology of st…
Migration and Homelessness: The Social Networks of Homeless Poles in Oslo
This article discusses the results of fieldwork conducted among physically homeless Polish migrants in Oslo, Norway. I focus on the social networks that are a part of the migrants' social capital, and which should ideally prevent them from a state of ‘rooflessness’. I present the narratives of these Polish rough-sleepers in Oslo and analyse their links with the home country and their bonds with the Polish community in Norway and with the wider No…
Homelessness Abroad: “Place Utility” in the Narratives of the Polish Homeless in Brussels
Among different groups of Poles in Brussels there are an estimated twenty thousand Polish migrants performing undocumented work. The presence of homeless Poles in Brussels indicates the vulnerability of some of the European labour migrants. The article is based on fieldwork conducted amongst Polish people sleeping rough in Brussels in 2008 and 2009. Most of the homeless informants were construction workers, who lost their living quarters due to s…
Codzienność wokół skupów złomu w Warszawie
This paper explores the survival strategies, daily-paths and everyday activities of a group of homeless men in Warsaw who live by scavenging. It is based on data collected during three months (April–June 2008) of participant observation focussed on a street corner in the vicinity of two recycling centres/scrap yards, where a group of waste-picking men after selling the scavenged goods meet and hang out on a daily basis. The place performs multipl…
We Shouldn't but We Do: Framing the Strategies for Helping Homeless EU migrants in Copenhagen and Dublin
Municipal and voluntary organisations providing services for the growing numbers of homeless EU migrants are faced with many inconsistencies and contradictions in these migrants' legal situation and their access to services. To see how official policies are realised in everyday practice, sixteen interviews have been conducted in Copenhagen and Dublin with various representatives of organisations that support homeless EU migrants. A typology of st…
Failing to Perform Citizenship: Daily Narratives About Stockholm's 'vulnerable EU citizens
The question of mobile Roma beggars in Europe has been analysed in terms of securitization, racialization, and deportability. These people have been hailed as 'abject' or 'failed' citizens, the problem of race being made largely invisible. In the Swedish context, the category of race does not emerge in overt form, and Swedes generally imagine themselves to be an egalitarian and just society. However, in Stockholm, in 2015, the unprecedented visib…
Migration and Homelessness: The Social Networks of Homeless Poles in Oslo
This article discusses the results of fieldwork conducted among physically homeless Polish migrants in Oslo, Norway. I focus on the social networks that are a part of the migrants' social capital, and which should ideally prevent them from a state of ‘rooflessness’. I present the narratives of these Polish rough-sleepers in Oslo and analyse their links with the home country and their bonds with the Polish community in Norway and with the wider No…
Homelessness Abroad: “Place Utility” in the Narratives of the Polish Homeless in Brussels
Among different groups of Poles in Brussels there are an estimated twenty thousand Polish migrants performing undocumented work. The presence of homeless Poles in Brussels indicates the vulnerability of some of the European labour migrants. The article is based on fieldwork conducted amongst Polish people sleeping rough in Brussels in 2008 and 2009. Most of the homeless informants were construction workers, who lost their living quarters due to s…
Visible women, invisible gender: Knowledge production on homelessness in Flanders
Homelessness as a distinct social problem is a relatively recent social construct. Many women are thought to experience so-called ‘hidden homelessness’, which is said to be the cause of their under-representation in the data. However, data now show a higher proportion of women among those experiencing homelessness. In addition, current definitions explicitly include women’s specific experiences such as living under the threat of violence. This ar…
Metaphors and Evidence. Producing Numbers in National Homelessness Counts
It has been a couple of decades since attempts have been made to measure the extent of homelessness at national levels in Europe. While these counts are essential for public policymaking, producing such statistics also (re)produces power-knowledge. The definitions and categories used in homelessness surveys indicate how it is understood as a social problem. In Europe, the Nordic countries have some of the most reliable and current figures on home…
Codzienność wokół skupów złomu w Warszawie
This paper explores the survival strategies, daily-paths and everyday activities of a group of homeless men in Warsaw who live by scavenging. It is based on data collected during three months (April–June 2008) of participant observation focussed on a street corner in the vicinity of two recycling centres/scrap yards, where a group of waste-picking men after selling the scavenged goods meet and hang out on a daily basis. The place performs multipl…
Homelessness Abroad: “Place Utility” in the Narratives of the Polish Homeless in Brussels
Among different groups of Poles in Brussels there are an estimated twenty thousand Polish migrants performing undocumented work. The presence of homeless Poles in Brussels indicates the vulnerability of some of the European labour migrants. The article is based on fieldwork conducted amongst Polish people sleeping rough in Brussels in 2008 and 2009. Most of the homeless informants were construction workers, who lost their living quarters due to s…
Migration and Homelessness: The Social Networks of Homeless Poles in Oslo
This article discusses the results of fieldwork conducted among physically homeless Polish migrants in Oslo, Norway. I focus on the social networks that are a part of the migrants' social capital, and which should ideally prevent them from a state of ‘rooflessness’. I present the narratives of these Polish rough-sleepers in Oslo and analyse their links with the home country and their bonds with the Polish community in Norway and with the wider No…
We Shouldn't but We Do: Framing the Strategies for Helping Homeless EU migrants in Copenhagen and Dublin
Municipal and voluntary organisations providing services for the growing numbers of homeless EU migrants are faced with many inconsistencies and contradictions in these migrants' legal situation and their access to services. To see how official policies are realised in everyday practice, sixteen interviews have been conducted in Copenhagen and Dublin with various representatives of organisations that support homeless EU migrants. A typology of st…
Metaphors and Evidence. Producing Numbers in National Homelessness Counts
It has been a couple of decades since attempts have been made to measure the extent of homelessness at national levels in Europe. While these counts are essential for public policymaking, producing such statistics also (re)produces power-knowledge. The definitions and categories used in homelessness surveys indicate how it is understood as a social problem. In Europe, the Nordic countries have some of the most reliable and current figures on home…
An ambiguous hierarchy of inequalities. The political intersectionality of older women's homelessness in Poland
This paper presents the most important findings from a research project on women’s homelessness in Poland, demonstrating that most Polish studies on homelessness fail to acknowledge its gender dimension, which remains unproblematized and unseen in the wider context of women’s position in society. Up until now feminist theorizing, and intersectionality in particular, has not been present in research on homelessness in Poland. The article adopts th…
The Conspicuous Hidden Curriculum and Young Women’s Daily Lives in Polish Crisis Accommodation
This article examines the daily routine in crisis accommodation for young women in Poland, investigating the hidden curriculum that includes highly gendered norms and expectations regarding residents. The article considers local crisis centres and state-funded Specialist Centres for Victims of Domestic Violence as well as Single Mothers’ Homes, which provide long-term accommodation for mothers with dependent children. The analysed material has be…
Failing to Perform Citizenship: Daily Narratives About Stockholm's 'vulnerable EU citizens
The question of mobile Roma beggars in Europe has been analysed in terms of securitization, racialization, and deportability. These people have been hailed as 'abject' or 'failed' citizens, the problem of race being made largely invisible. In the Swedish context, the category of race does not emerge in overt form, and Swedes generally imagine themselves to be an egalitarian and just society. However, in Stockholm, in 2015, the unprecedented visib…
Visible women, invisible gender: Knowledge production on homelessness in Flanders
Homelessness as a distinct social problem is a relatively recent social construct. Many women are thought to experience so-called ‘hidden homelessness’, which is said to be the cause of their under-representation in the data. However, data now show a higher proportion of women among those experiencing homelessness. In addition, current definitions explicitly include women’s specific experiences such as living under the threat of violence. This ar…
Sociology (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)