Zuzanna Brunarska

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Assistant Professor at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
Researching: determinants of #attitudes towards imm/emigration, #migration decision-making, contextual effects of migration, inter-ethnic relations and migration in #Russia
websitehttps://www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/zespol/zuzanna-brunarska-2/
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Show threadZuzanna BrunarskaDec 10
An ungated version of our paper (Accepted Manuscript) is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398443690_Beyond_national_identity_The_positive_role_of_local_identity_in_shaping_attitudes_to_international_and_internal_migration
Show threadZuzanna BrunarskaDec 10
… determine whether group boundaries at the local and national levels matter for opposition to the different types of immigration in the local community. Our analysis was based on nationally representative samples from AT, CZ, DE, HU, PL & SK from the 1st wave of Central European Social Survey (CESS).
Show threadZuzanna BrunarskaDec 10
… local identity was linked to more welcoming attitudes to both international and internal migration, and it neutralized the negative effect of national identity on attitudes to international migration. We focus on immigration attitudes in the local environment rather than in the country. By simultaneously examining attitudes to both internal and international migration and considering both national and local identity, were able to …
Zuzanna BrunarskaDec 10
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
Zuzanna BrunarskaOct 3
📢 #jobalert #hiring
#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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Show threadZuzanna BrunarskaJul 30, 2025
…restrictions imposed on emigration by their own state. To this end, I use family accounts of unrealized emigration from two emigration-restrictive contexts: communist Poland and the USSR. By providing an empirical case on immobility that does not easily fit into the voluntary/involuntary dichotomy, I argue for the need to look at the immobility outcome through the lens of a continuum of (in)voluntariness, rather than the involuntary-voluntary binary.
Zuzanna BrunarskaJul 30, 2025
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
Zuzanna BrunarskaOct 21, 2024
📣 #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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Show threadZuzanna BrunarskaMay 15, 2024
... 2) factors influencing stories and their reception, including post-hoc rationalisation; childhood memories; compensatory mobility; contact with those who left; everyday times, individual lifetimes, and institutional times.
Show threadZuzanna BrunarskaMay 15, 2024
I shed light on 1) the mechanisms that may underlie the potential influence of the experience over migration-related attitudes, norms, #aspirations of the non-migrants’ #descendants, including directly persuasive normatively loaded, migration-encouraging #narratives and neutral or migration-discouraging #stories though contributing to the perception of mobility as a social norm and leading to greater sensitivity to the subject, and ... 2/