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Polish Migration from the Perspective of 2017
04 May 2017鈥�05 May 2017, 10:30 am鈥�6:30 pm
Event Information
Location
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IAS Common Ground (Room G11 South Wing)
Join us for the 2017 Polish Migration Conference, led by Professor Anne White.
Despite
the cold winds of Brexit, Polish migration research continues to blossom. Myths
about Polish migrants pervade politics and the media, but more and more good
information is available, as numerous research projects have been completed in
recent years.
The last SSEES Polish
migration conference, in April 2015, focused on integration, settlement and opportunities
for transnational practices within the EU free movement area. In 2017, these
themes are equally relevant for Poles in their everyday lives, but so too are the
insecurities engendered by Brexit and by anti-immigration sentiment across
Europe.
This conference brings together scholars working on Poland, the UK, Norway and New Zealand to discuss the findings of several collaborative, funded projects, as well many individual ones, and to explore new concepts and methodologies in migration research.
Conference abstracts can be found here.
Programme
Thursday 4th May:
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10.30-11.00 |
Introduction |
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11.00-13.00 |
Session 1: Gender and migration Justyna Bell and Paula Pustu艂ka, 鈥楻ole Changes and Pressures within Multiple Mobile Masculinities - the case of Polish Migrant Men鈥� Lise Widding Isaksen and Ela Czapka, 鈥楪ender and Care in Transnational Families: Empowerment, Change and Tradition鈥� Alina Rzepnikowska, 鈥楥onvivial practices of Polish migrant women in religious spaces and beyond鈥� |
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
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14.00-15.20 |
Session 2: Interactions with the receiving society Marta Bivand Erdal, 鈥榃hen Poland Became the Main Country of Birth among Catholics in Norway鈥�: Exploring the Interface of Polish Migrants鈥� Everyday Narratives and Church Responses to a Rapid Demographic Re-Constitution鈥� Louise Ryan, 'After the Brexit Referendum: the dynamics of Polish migrants belonging in London' |
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15.20-15.50 |
Tea |
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15.50-17.10 |
Session 3: Welfare and living standards Bozena Sojka and Emma Carmel, 鈥楩ree to move, right to work, entitled to claim? Governing social security portability for mobile Polish people in the UK鈥� Catherine Barnard and Amy Ludlow, 鈥楾he benefit of benefits?鈥� |
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17.10-17.25 |
Fruit |
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17.25-18.45 |
Session 3 (Welfare and living standards) continued Rebecca Kay and Paulina Trevena, 鈥楥entral and East European migrants in Scotland: the role of welfare in shaping in(securities) and longer-term plans鈥� Joanna Marczak, 鈥楾he grass is always greener - cross-national comparisons of living standards and policy packages in fertility decision making of Polish nationals in Poland and UK鈥� |
聽Friday 5th May
| 9.00-11.00 |
Session 4: Young(er) Poles in Poland Paula Pustu艂ka, Justyna Sarnowska, Izabela Grabowska, Aldona Zdrodowska, Marta Buler, Natalia Juchniewicz Double paper: 鈥楶eer groups and migration: dialoguing theory and empirical research鈥� and 鈥榊oung people leaving Polish middle-towns: A multi-sited ethnography of migration causes in sending localities and the peer group/migration juncture. Preliminary findings of the Peer Groups and Migration project鈥� Anne White, 鈥楾he impact of migration on Poland: generation, gender and location鈥� |
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11.00-11.30 |
Tea |
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11.30-13.30 |
Session 5: Young(er) Poles in the UK
Anna Kordasiewicz and Przemys艂aw Sadura, 鈥楳igrant place re-making through an intersectional lens 鈥� Lewisham Polish Centre case dtudy鈥� Daniela Sime, Naomi Tyrrell, Claire Kelly, Christina McMellon and Marta Moskal, 'Here to stay? Preliminary findings from a post-Brexit survey with young Poles in the UK' Sara Young, 鈥楴arratives of resistance: Polish adolescents & anti-Polish sentiment in the UK鈥� |
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13.30-14.30 |
Lunch |
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14.30-16.30 |
Session 6: Reflexivity, agency and change in migrants鈥� identities and experiences Justyna Bell and Markieta Domecka, 鈥楾he Transformative Potential of Migration: Polish Migrants鈥� Everyday Life Experiences in Belfast, Northern Ireland鈥� Kinga Goodwin, 鈥榃omen's feelings of inclusion in the public versus private sphere as women, migrants and Poles: a comparison of New Zealand and the UK鈥� Holly Porteous, 鈥楥entral and East European migrant entrepreneurship in the North of Scotland: motivations and realities鈥�. |
| 16.30-17.00 |
Tea |
| 17.00-17.40 |
Session 7: After Brexit Kate Botterill, 鈥樷�滲argaining chips鈥� or 鈥渟takeholder citizens鈥�: Polish migrant political agency in two UK referendums鈥� |
| 17.40-18.10 | Concluding discussion |
Registration
To register for the workshop, please email Prof Anne White, Professor of Polish Studies, 果冻影院 SSEES. Registration is free but essential, as places are limited
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