Anna Matyska
Biographic Data
| ID | 327438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Matyska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Matyska |
| SIGNATURE | MATYSKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3573-5181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diaspora in times of war: Understanding patterns of Ukrainian mobilization from afar through a comparative lens
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…
Unsettled times: War, temporality, and Ukrainian transnational lives
War is among the most disruptive forces in people’s lives, reverberating across borders and reshaping how time is experienced transnationally. This article examines the Russo–Ukrainian war through the lived temporality of long-term Ukrainian migrants in Poland, drawing on thirty-seven interviews and participant observation conducted between 2023 and 2025. While not dismissing the political and experiential relevance of a unilinear model of time, …
Labor Aristocracy of Temporary Transnational Mobility: Nomadic Agents in the Precarious World of Late Capitalism
Temporariness, precariousness, and uncertainty feature prominently in late capitalism, manifesting in temporary labor mobility from low-income to high-income countries and heavily burdening the lower migration strata. However, precariousness affects mobile workers unevenly. I advance the concept of a transnationally mobile labor aristocracy to capture the situation of skilled mobile Polish tradesmen who, due to their European nationality and the …
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing
Every year, tens of thousands of people go missing in Europe and across the globe, leaving the families of these individuals in the anguish of the unknown. Yet only some missing gain media attention, with others remaining the ‘missing missing’, and this contributes to a definition of who is, and who is not, worthy of being searched for. This article focuses on the Polish television programme Ktokolwiek widział, ktokolwiek wie ( Has anybody seen, …
Conceptualizing transnational disappearances: Polish missing abroad and the governance of the search
Transnational studies emphasize the continuous social presence of transnationally mobile people in their countries of origin. However, some of these individuals will disappear, bringing affective turmoil and uncertainty to the families left behind. Although research has focused on political indifference towards undocumented missing migrants, the effects of other mobility regimes on disappearances remain understudied. I explore patterns of Polish …
Tracing Infrastructure and its Evolution in the Search for the Missing in Poland
Every day around the globe, people go missing for any number of reasons. Some disappearances are intentional, others are enforced by oppressive political regimes or the result of natural disasters. Whatever the reason, these disappearances produce family ruptures and anxieties, and require a search to establish, at the very least, whether the missing person is dead or alive. In Poland, the number of reported disappearances gradually rose to 20 00…
Gendered encounters in mobility: Women researching migrant construction workers
Writing about sexism and sexual harassment in the field is still generally discouraged outside gender ethnography, despite a growing gender reflexivity in research. This is mostly due to certain established norms and expectations about ethnographic work that tend to ignore how these issues contribute to women's fieldwork experiences and subsequent ethnographic accounts. In this article, we go against this tendency by setting out our gendered expe…
A post-socialist legacy in transnational families: Russian and Polish women in Finland
In this article, we bridge the analytical gap between transnational anthropology and the anthropology of post-socialism to explore the transnational family lives of Russian and Polish women in Finland. We point to three interrelated aspects of the post-socialist legacy - (1) an inclusive understanding and practice of family that involves the interactions of immediate and extended family configurations; (2) intergenerational solidarity among women…
Beyond the Divide: Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe
A post-socialist legacy in transnational families: Russian and Polish women in Finland
In this article, we bridge the analytical gap between transnational anthropology and the anthropology of post-socialism to explore the transnational family lives of Russian and Polish women in Finland. We point to three interrelated aspects of the post-socialist legacy - (1) an inclusive understanding and practice of family that involves the interactions of immediate and extended family configurations; (2) intergenerational solidarity among women…
Beyond the Divide: Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe
A post-socialist legacy in transnational families: Russian and Polish women in Finland
In this article, we bridge the analytical gap between transnational anthropology and the anthropology of post-socialism to explore the transnational family lives of Russian and Polish women in Finland. We point to three interrelated aspects of the post-socialist legacy - (1) an inclusive understanding and practice of family that involves the interactions of immediate and extended family configurations; (2) intergenerational solidarity among women…
Gendered encounters in mobility: Women researching migrant construction workers
Writing about sexism and sexual harassment in the field is still generally discouraged outside gender ethnography, despite a growing gender reflexivity in research. This is mostly due to certain established norms and expectations about ethnographic work that tend to ignore how these issues contribute to women's fieldwork experiences and subsequent ethnographic accounts. In this article, we go against this tendency by setting out our gendered expe…
Marginalized disappearances: Shaping the power relations of the search for the missing
Every year, tens of thousands of people go missing in Europe and across the globe, leaving the families of these individuals in the anguish of the unknown. Yet only some missing gain media attention, with others remaining the ‘missing missing’, and this contributes to a definition of who is, and who is not, worthy of being searched for. This article focuses on the Polish television programme Ktokolwiek widział, ktokolwiek wie ( Has anybody seen, …
Conceptualizing transnational disappearances: Polish missing abroad and the governance of the search
Transnational studies emphasize the continuous social presence of transnationally mobile people in their countries of origin. However, some of these individuals will disappear, bringing affective turmoil and uncertainty to the families left behind. Although research has focused on political indifference towards undocumented missing migrants, the effects of other mobility regimes on disappearances remain understudied. I explore patterns of Polish …
Tracing Infrastructure and its Evolution in the Search for the Missing in Poland
Every day around the globe, people go missing for any number of reasons. Some disappearances are intentional, others are enforced by oppressive political regimes or the result of natural disasters. Whatever the reason, these disappearances produce family ruptures and anxieties, and require a search to establish, at the very least, whether the missing person is dead or alive. In Poland, the number of reported disappearances gradually rose to 20 00…
Labor Aristocracy of Temporary Transnational Mobility: Nomadic Agents in the Precarious World of Late Capitalism
Temporariness, precariousness, and uncertainty feature prominently in late capitalism, manifesting in temporary labor mobility from low-income to high-income countries and heavily burdening the lower migration strata. However, precariousness affects mobile workers unevenly. I advance the concept of a transnationally mobile labor aristocracy to capture the situation of skilled mobile Polish tradesmen who, due to their European nationality and the …
Diaspora in times of war: Understanding patterns of Ukrainian mobilization from afar through a comparative lens
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…
Unsettled times: War, temporality, and Ukrainian transnational lives
War is among the most disruptive forces in people’s lives, reverberating across borders and reshaping how time is experienced transnationally. This article examines the Russo–Ukrainian war through the lived temporality of long-term Ukrainian migrants in Poland, drawing on thirty-seven interviews and participant observation conducted between 2023 and 2025. While not dismissing the political and experiential relevance of a unilinear model of time, …
Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)