Karolina Barglowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 835539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karolina Barglowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karolina |
| FAMILY NAME | Barglowski |
| SIGNATURE | BARGLOWSKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | TU Dortmund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0524-5595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Challenging the ‘Migration‐for‐Safety’ Narrative: Gendered Necropolitics, Affectivity and Resilience Across Women's Forced Journeys
This article challenges the ‘migration‐for‐safety’ narrative by examining how women fleeing coercive contexts encounter violence as a cross‐border continuum in Germany. Following on the concept of necropolitics, it demonstrates how hierarchies of human worth are reproduced through the continuum of violence, foregrounding its affective dimensions. The analysis traces affectivity as a technology of domination and as a resource for care and resistan…
Beyond individual vulnerability: Bureaucratic violence and the marginalization of migranticized women in Germany during the Covid-19 pandemic
Towards the polysemic fabrication of integration: Relating hegemony-critical theories ‘from above’ and actor-centred approaches ‘from below’
The concept of ‘migrant integration’ – a cornerstone in international migration studies – has been subjected to extensive critique and analysis. Against the background of the multiplicity of critiques, this article aims to review and consolidate the critique’s central arguments to develop an outline of the domination-critical, iterative, and constructivist concept of ‘doing integration’. In developing this approach, the article reviews and interr…
Transnational social positioning through a family lens: How cross-border family relations shape subjective social positions in migration contexts
This article examines transnational social positioning through a family lens. Based on interviews with people who moved to Germany as young adults, we show that socialization and expectations in families coin individual understandings of success as an important baseline for social positioning, while migration challenges these understandings and social position evaluations in complex ways. With a specific focus on evolving processes of social comp…
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class-Making
Transnational class formation has been a subject of considerable interest in recent years. This article provides the theoretical and thematic framework to the special theme on 'Transnational class formation: identities, practices and symbolic classifications' and presents a review of current literature on transnational social classes, arguing that we need to complement this literature by also considering transnational class-making. We introduce s…
Transformations of transnational care in times of the pandemic: Spotlights and Future Prospects
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in care between mobile and immobile populations. It has highlighted the precarious situation of many migranticized individuals and their families worldwide, but it has also brought their situation into the public eye, providing opportunities for advances in social science understanding and policy reform. This Special Issue explores the interplay between transnational care arrangements, c…
Beyond integration versus homeland attachment: How migrant organizations affect processes of anchoring and embedding
The links between integration and transnationalism have attracted considerable attention in the study of migration. In contributing to these debates, this article examines the increasingly diverse landscape of self-organizations of people with migratory biographies, the so-called migrant organizations (MOs), to show how these provide opportunities for establishing and maintaining attachments in changing social and spatial contexts. Using in-depth…
Migrant organisations, belonging and social protection. The role of migrant organisations in migrants' social risk‐averting strategies
This article contributes to the debates on migrant social protection assemblages by assessing enabling factors that provide migrants with opportunities to organise their social protection in changing environments. In‐depth interviews with migrants who use services from several migrant organisations ( MOs ) were conducted to study their largely neglected roles in social protection practices. Our findings indicate that MOs are important actors in t…
Finding My Own Way: Mobilization of Cultural Capital through Migrant Organizations in Germany
Migrant organizations (MOs), as associations that are founded, managed, and led by people with migration biographies, have recently emerged as facilitators of social protection interventions. This article is devoted to this barely debated issue of MOs in the field of social protection, by emphasizing their role in facilitating the mobilization and access to cultural capital as an important determinant of protection and wellbeing of people with mi…
The Affective Dimension of Social Protection: A Case Study of Migrant-Led Organizations and Associations in Germany
This article follows the recent 'affective turn' in social sciences and migration scholarship by analyzing the role of emotions in the handling of social risks by people with different migration biographies. The study is based on large-scale research with migrant organizations in Germany, which are important, though often neglected, sources of social protection, identity development, and community building. Interviews and egocentric network diagr…
Transnational parenting in settled families: Social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany
This paper considers migrant parenting as a dynamic project that entails interactions between social class, migration experiences, individual and collective beliefs, and transnational attachments. Previous research has examined migrant parenting predominantly concerning children's social mobility in the immigration country by using the acculturation framework or by comparing migrants with non-migrants. Recently, research has accounted for child r…
Cultures of Transnationality in European Migration: Subjectivity, Family and Inequality
Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book explores the cultural and social patterns that shape people's migration, the historical and contemporary patterns of their movement, and the manifold consequences of their migration for themselves and their families. Exploring the links between social and spatial mobility, the book draws attention to t…
Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection
Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous research has shown that migrants are particularly affected by challenges when accessing or providing social protection, because of unfamiliar welfare regulations in the immigration country and their family and friends being located in various l…
Migrants' class and parenting: The role of cultural capital in Migrants' inequalities in education
Although scholars consistently show that class-specific parenting, influenced by the resources parents have due to their socio-economic position, is one of the most important factors for children's different life chances and outcomes as adults, migrants' parenting is usually analysed with a focus on their ethnicity or country of origin. Building on cultural perspectives on class, this study demonstrates that migrant parents are differently endowe…
Where, What and Whom to Study? Principles, Guidelines and Empirical Examples of Case Selection and Sampling in Migration Research
Tightening early childcare choices – gender and social class inequalities among Polish mothers in Germany and the UK
Care for young children continues to highly influence the life chances of men and women, even more so when they are migrants. For migrant women, childcare remains a particular challenge when their kin are absent and the gendered norms of work and family life abroad diverge from what they have known in the country of origin. This article contributes to a deeper understanding of social class and childcare strategies of migrant women by combining tw…
Coming out within transnational families: Intimate confessions under Western eyes
This article is about ‘coming out’ and the process of disclosure of queer migrants within their transnational families. Despite debates about the decreasing relevance of coming out in contemporary western societies, we argue that the process of coming out continues to be a central mode of belonging and identity construction for queers in the context of transnational migration. Interviews with migrants from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany on …
Approaching Transnational Social Protection: Methodological Challenges and Empirical Applications
Transnational social spaces are multidimensional in terms of the socio‐spatial categories – that is, local, global, and national – and different actors and institutions involved. Recent developments in transnational methodology argue for a thorough reflection on the challenges of methodological nationalism, essentialism, and researchers' positionality. Therefore, in designing and conducting transnational research, reflections on methodological ch…
Caregiving in Polish–German Transnational Social Space: Circulating Narratives and Intersecting Heterogeneities
Transnational caregiving has recently provoked a number of studies on the impact of migration on the reorganisation of care arrangements, family dynamics, and gender roles. Yet, the literature on transnational caregiving rarely discusses the ambivalences which migrants encounter in the provision of care. Twenty interviews with migrants from Poland in Germany and ten interviews with their relatives in Poland reveal that transnational childcare is …
On the Assemblages of Informal and Formal Transnational Social Protection
Social protection is an assemblage of informal and formal elements. These opposites – ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ – have been a feature of social policy discourse for a long time. Here, informal social protection is taken as that provided by interpersonal networks, whereas formal social protection is conceptualised as being provided by the state and organisations. This article draws on several bodies of literature on social protection to show how the…
Transnational Social Protection: Migrants' Strategies and Patterns of Inequalities
How migrants organise their social protection is not a straightforward process but, rather, a much more intricate and nuanced one, which takes into account the manifold state regulations, supranational frameworks and civil society organisations, as well as the migrants themselves and their significant others spread across various state borders. This introduction to our special issue examines the social protection strategies of migrants, the ways …
Transnational Social Protection: Migrants' Strategies and Patterns of Inequalities
How migrants organise their social protection is not a straightforward process but, rather, a much more intricate and nuanced one, which takes into account the manifold state regulations, supranational frameworks and civil society organisations, as well as the migrants themselves and their significant others spread across various state borders. This introduction to our special issue examines the social protection strategies of migrants, the ways …
On the Assemblages of Informal and Formal Transnational Social Protection
Social protection is an assemblage of informal and formal elements. These opposites – ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ – have been a feature of social policy discourse for a long time. Here, informal social protection is taken as that provided by interpersonal networks, whereas formal social protection is conceptualised as being provided by the state and organisations. This article draws on several bodies of literature on social protection to show how the…
Approaching Transnational Social Protection: Methodological Challenges and Empirical Applications
Transnational social spaces are multidimensional in terms of the socio‐spatial categories – that is, local, global, and national – and different actors and institutions involved. Recent developments in transnational methodology argue for a thorough reflection on the challenges of methodological nationalism, essentialism, and researchers' positionality. Therefore, in designing and conducting transnational research, reflections on methodological ch…
Migrants' class and parenting: The role of cultural capital in Migrants' inequalities in education
Although scholars consistently show that class-specific parenting, influenced by the resources parents have due to their socio-economic position, is one of the most important factors for children's different life chances and outcomes as adults, migrants' parenting is usually analysed with a focus on their ethnicity or country of origin. Building on cultural perspectives on class, this study demonstrates that migrant parents are differently endowe…
Caregiving in Polish–German Transnational Social Space: Circulating Narratives and Intersecting Heterogeneities
Transnational caregiving has recently provoked a number of studies on the impact of migration on the reorganisation of care arrangements, family dynamics, and gender roles. Yet, the literature on transnational caregiving rarely discusses the ambivalences which migrants encounter in the provision of care. Twenty interviews with migrants from Poland in Germany and ten interviews with their relatives in Poland reveal that transnational childcare is …
Transformations of transnational care in times of the pandemic: Spotlights and Future Prospects
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in care between mobile and immobile populations. It has highlighted the precarious situation of many migranticized individuals and their families worldwide, but it has also brought their situation into the public eye, providing opportunities for advances in social science understanding and policy reform. This Special Issue explores the interplay between transnational care arrangements, c…
Migrant organisations, belonging and social protection. The role of migrant organisations in migrants' social risk‐averting strategies
This article contributes to the debates on migrant social protection assemblages by assessing enabling factors that provide migrants with opportunities to organise their social protection in changing environments. In‐depth interviews with migrants who use services from several migrant organisations ( MOs ) were conducted to study their largely neglected roles in social protection practices. Our findings indicate that MOs are important actors in t…
Transnational parenting in settled families: Social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany
This paper considers migrant parenting as a dynamic project that entails interactions between social class, migration experiences, individual and collective beliefs, and transnational attachments. Previous research has examined migrant parenting predominantly concerning children's social mobility in the immigration country by using the acculturation framework or by comparing migrants with non-migrants. Recently, research has accounted for child r…
The Affective Dimension of Social Protection: A Case Study of Migrant-Led Organizations and Associations in Germany
This article follows the recent 'affective turn' in social sciences and migration scholarship by analyzing the role of emotions in the handling of social risks by people with different migration biographies. The study is based on large-scale research with migrant organizations in Germany, which are important, though often neglected, sources of social protection, identity development, and community building. Interviews and egocentric network diagr…
Tightening early childcare choices – gender and social class inequalities among Polish mothers in Germany and the UK
Care for young children continues to highly influence the life chances of men and women, even more so when they are migrants. For migrant women, childcare remains a particular challenge when their kin are absent and the gendered norms of work and family life abroad diverge from what they have known in the country of origin. This article contributes to a deeper understanding of social class and childcare strategies of migrant women by combining tw…
Coming out within transnational families: Intimate confessions under Western eyes
This article is about ‘coming out’ and the process of disclosure of queer migrants within their transnational families. Despite debates about the decreasing relevance of coming out in contemporary western societies, we argue that the process of coming out continues to be a central mode of belonging and identity construction for queers in the context of transnational migration. Interviews with migrants from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany on …
Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection
Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous research has shown that migrants are particularly affected by challenges when accessing or providing social protection, because of unfamiliar welfare regulations in the immigration country and their family and friends being located in various l…
Transnational social positioning through a family lens: How cross-border family relations shape subjective social positions in migration contexts
This article examines transnational social positioning through a family lens. Based on interviews with people who moved to Germany as young adults, we show that socialization and expectations in families coin individual understandings of success as an important baseline for social positioning, while migration challenges these understandings and social position evaluations in complex ways. With a specific focus on evolving processes of social comp…
Finding My Own Way: Mobilization of Cultural Capital through Migrant Organizations in Germany
Migrant organizations (MOs), as associations that are founded, managed, and led by people with migration biographies, have recently emerged as facilitators of social protection interventions. This article is devoted to this barely debated issue of MOs in the field of social protection, by emphasizing their role in facilitating the mobilization and access to cultural capital as an important determinant of protection and wellbeing of people with mi…
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class-Making
Transnational class formation has been a subject of considerable interest in recent years. This article provides the theoretical and thematic framework to the special theme on 'Transnational class formation: identities, practices and symbolic classifications' and presents a review of current literature on transnational social classes, arguing that we need to complement this literature by also considering transnational class-making. We introduce s…
On the Assemblages of Informal and Formal Transnational Social Protection
Social protection is an assemblage of informal and formal elements. These opposites – ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ – have been a feature of social policy discourse for a long time. Here, informal social protection is taken as that provided by interpersonal networks, whereas formal social protection is conceptualised as being provided by the state and organisations. This article draws on several bodies of literature on social protection to show how the…
Transnational Social Protection: Migrants' Strategies and Patterns of Inequalities
How migrants organise their social protection is not a straightforward process but, rather, a much more intricate and nuanced one, which takes into account the manifold state regulations, supranational frameworks and civil society organisations, as well as the migrants themselves and their significant others spread across various state borders. This introduction to our special issue examines the social protection strategies of migrants, the ways …
Approaching Transnational Social Protection: Methodological Challenges and Empirical Applications
Transnational social spaces are multidimensional in terms of the socio‐spatial categories – that is, local, global, and national – and different actors and institutions involved. Recent developments in transnational methodology argue for a thorough reflection on the challenges of methodological nationalism, essentialism, and researchers' positionality. Therefore, in designing and conducting transnational research, reflections on methodological ch…
Caregiving in Polish–German Transnational Social Space: Circulating Narratives and Intersecting Heterogeneities
Transnational caregiving has recently provoked a number of studies on the impact of migration on the reorganisation of care arrangements, family dynamics, and gender roles. Yet, the literature on transnational caregiving rarely discusses the ambivalences which migrants encounter in the provision of care. Twenty interviews with migrants from Poland in Germany and ten interviews with their relatives in Poland reveal that transnational childcare is …
Where, What and Whom to Study? Principles, Guidelines and Empirical Examples of Case Selection and Sampling in Migration Research
Tightening early childcare choices – gender and social class inequalities among Polish mothers in Germany and the UK
Care for young children continues to highly influence the life chances of men and women, even more so when they are migrants. For migrant women, childcare remains a particular challenge when their kin are absent and the gendered norms of work and family life abroad diverge from what they have known in the country of origin. This article contributes to a deeper understanding of social class and childcare strategies of migrant women by combining tw…
Coming out within transnational families: Intimate confessions under Western eyes
This article is about ‘coming out’ and the process of disclosure of queer migrants within their transnational families. Despite debates about the decreasing relevance of coming out in contemporary western societies, we argue that the process of coming out continues to be a central mode of belonging and identity construction for queers in the context of transnational migration. Interviews with migrants from Poland, Russia and Turkey in Germany on …
Cultures of Transnationality in European Migration: Subjectivity, Family and Inequality
Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book explores the cultural and social patterns that shape people's migration, the historical and contemporary patterns of their movement, and the manifold consequences of their migration for themselves and their families. Exploring the links between social and spatial mobility, the book draws attention to t…
Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection
Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous research has shown that migrants are particularly affected by challenges when accessing or providing social protection, because of unfamiliar welfare regulations in the immigration country and their family and friends being located in various l…
Migrants' class and parenting: The role of cultural capital in Migrants' inequalities in education
Although scholars consistently show that class-specific parenting, influenced by the resources parents have due to their socio-economic position, is one of the most important factors for children's different life chances and outcomes as adults, migrants' parenting is usually analysed with a focus on their ethnicity or country of origin. Building on cultural perspectives on class, this study demonstrates that migrant parents are differently endowe…
Transnational parenting in settled families: Social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany
This paper considers migrant parenting as a dynamic project that entails interactions between social class, migration experiences, individual and collective beliefs, and transnational attachments. Previous research has examined migrant parenting predominantly concerning children's social mobility in the immigration country by using the acculturation framework or by comparing migrants with non-migrants. Recently, research has accounted for child r…
Migrant organisations, belonging and social protection. The role of migrant organisations in migrants' social risk‐averting strategies
This article contributes to the debates on migrant social protection assemblages by assessing enabling factors that provide migrants with opportunities to organise their social protection in changing environments. In‐depth interviews with migrants who use services from several migrant organisations ( MOs ) were conducted to study their largely neglected roles in social protection practices. Our findings indicate that MOs are important actors in t…
Finding My Own Way: Mobilization of Cultural Capital through Migrant Organizations in Germany
Migrant organizations (MOs), as associations that are founded, managed, and led by people with migration biographies, have recently emerged as facilitators of social protection interventions. This article is devoted to this barely debated issue of MOs in the field of social protection, by emphasizing their role in facilitating the mobilization and access to cultural capital as an important determinant of protection and wellbeing of people with mi…
The Affective Dimension of Social Protection: A Case Study of Migrant-Led Organizations and Associations in Germany
This article follows the recent 'affective turn' in social sciences and migration scholarship by analyzing the role of emotions in the handling of social risks by people with different migration biographies. The study is based on large-scale research with migrant organizations in Germany, which are important, though often neglected, sources of social protection, identity development, and community building. Interviews and egocentric network diagr…
Beyond integration versus homeland attachment: How migrant organizations affect processes of anchoring and embedding
The links between integration and transnationalism have attracted considerable attention in the study of migration. In contributing to these debates, this article examines the increasingly diverse landscape of self-organizations of people with migratory biographies, the so-called migrant organizations (MOs), to show how these provide opportunities for establishing and maintaining attachments in changing social and spatial contexts. Using in-depth…
Transnational social positioning through a family lens: How cross-border family relations shape subjective social positions in migration contexts
This article examines transnational social positioning through a family lens. Based on interviews with people who moved to Germany as young adults, we show that socialization and expectations in families coin individual understandings of success as an important baseline for social positioning, while migration challenges these understandings and social position evaluations in complex ways. With a specific focus on evolving processes of social comp…
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class-Making
Transnational class formation has been a subject of considerable interest in recent years. This article provides the theoretical and thematic framework to the special theme on 'Transnational class formation: identities, practices and symbolic classifications' and presents a review of current literature on transnational social classes, arguing that we need to complement this literature by also considering transnational class-making. We introduce s…
Transformations of transnational care in times of the pandemic: Spotlights and Future Prospects
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities in care between mobile and immobile populations. It has highlighted the precarious situation of many migranticized individuals and their families worldwide, but it has also brought their situation into the public eye, providing opportunities for advances in social science understanding and policy reform. This Special Issue explores the interplay between transnational care arrangements, c…
Towards the polysemic fabrication of integration: Relating hegemony-critical theories ‘from above’ and actor-centred approaches ‘from below’
The concept of ‘migrant integration’ – a cornerstone in international migration studies – has been subjected to extensive critique and analysis. Against the background of the multiplicity of critiques, this article aims to review and consolidate the critique’s central arguments to develop an outline of the domination-critical, iterative, and constructivist concept of ‘doing integration’. In developing this approach, the article reviews and interr…
Challenging the ‘Migration‐for‐Safety’ Narrative: Gendered Necropolitics, Affectivity and Resilience Across Women's Forced Journeys
This article challenges the ‘migration‐for‐safety’ narrative by examining how women fleeing coercive contexts encounter violence as a cross‐border continuum in Germany. Following on the concept of necropolitics, it demonstrates how hierarchies of human worth are reproduced through the continuum of violence, foregrounding its affective dimensions. The analysis traces affectivity as a technology of domination and as a resource for care and resistan…
Beyond individual vulnerability: Bureaucratic violence and the marginalization of migranticized women in Germany during the Covid-19 pandemic
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)