In our new paper w/ Sabina Toruńczyk-Ruiz & @anetapiekut published in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, we examine national and local identification, as well as their interplay, as determinants of attitudes to international & internal migration. We found that national identity was associated w/ more negative attitudes to international migration, but not internal migration. In contrast, … 1/ @sociology doi.org/10.1177/13684302251391155

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#Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 14.5 mo (fte) at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project. Details and application instructions available under the following link: https://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Ogloszenie-o-konkursie_DemExII_OBM_ENG-JL-1.pdf
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In my new paper in Nationalities Papers, I address the question of the distinction between voluntary and involuntary immobility under emigration restrictions. I show how the critique of the voluntary-involuntary binary expands to the study of immobility as an outcome of the migration decision-making process. I do so by considering a specific case where people’s aspirations and capabilities are subject to… 1/ doi.org/10.1017/nps.2025.10088

📣 #jobalert #hiring
#Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 2y (fte) at the Centre of #migration Research, University of Warsaw to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project. Details and application instructions available under the following link: https://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/OBM-NA-P-T-APDemEX-2.12024_ENG.pdf
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In a new JEMS paper, drawing on interviews with people whose #family members intended to #emigrate from communist Poland & Russia but have not fulfilled their plans, I explore family #stories on unrealised emigration experienced under emigration restrictions and their potential #intergenerational impacts. @sociology doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2346619 1/

Can exposure to #books influence individual spatial mobility? In our new paper w/ Artjoms Ivlevs, we show that library size in a #childhood home is positively related to adult #migration intentions. We argue that this positive link occurs due to childhood #reading, which is encouraged by the presence of books at home, and reading’s formative role in providing a simulative experience and making readers more aware of opportunities in other places,... 1/ @sociology doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae011

The AM of my article 'Exposure to Immigration and Sense of Socio-Territorial Belonging: Evidence from Russia' that appeared in Problems of Post-Communism a while ago is now free to read on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360978290_Exposure_to_Immigration_and_Sense_of_Socio-Territorial_Belonging_Evidence_from_Russia

Continuing on the topic of #family influences on #migration intentions, in our new paper w/ Artjoms Ivlevs in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies we provide stronger evidence for the existence of ‘family migration capital’ transmitted across #generations https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2290443 Past work has relied on accounts of any migration experience, including voluntary moves, where greater propensity to move among migrants’ #descendants may be due to …. 1/

Our #HorizonEU -funded project #RAISE has a website! Follow us at raise-horizon.eu if interested in boundary making processes, awareness of and justification for inequalities and actions that support equality.