Michał P. Garapich is a social anthropologist, specializing in the issues of migration, ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism, social resistance, homelessness and migration from Poland. His PhD (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) focused on the politial and symbolic dimensions of the relationship between different waves and groups of Polish migrants in the UK and Italy, the practices of de-territorialized nation state, power relations within diasporic/ethnic associations and negotiations of ethnicity. Since 2005 Michał conducted numerous research projects using both quantitative as well as ethnographic methods exploring various aspects of life of migrants from Accession States (EU10) in the UK, as well as migrants from Africa. His research was funded by London local government (among others: Hammersmith & Fulham, Redbridge, Lewisham, Waltham Forest, Greenwich), Polish government (MSZ), the European Comission, Research Councils (ESRC, NCN), media (BBC Newsnight, Channel 4), think tanks (IPPR, Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Instytut Zchodni) and charitable trust (Southlands Methodist Trust). He has also undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in Cusco, Peru looking at land invasions and urban squatting. At the moment his work focuses on migration of Polish Roma.
Selected publications
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
Anti-paćiw of Gadje academia, Ficowski’s shadow and what to do about it – exercises in reciprocal ethnography and decolonizing the Polish Romani studies
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Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Michał P. Garapich,
Kamila Fiałkowska,
Migratory encounters, common idiom, and the king: The relationship between two Roma groups from Poland in transnational social space
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Sonia Styrkacz,
Michał P. Garapich,
Kamila Fiałkowska,
Pandemic (Im)Mobilities of Polish Roma
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
Romani Chronicles Of Covid-19. Testimonies Of Harm And Resilience
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Michał P. Garapich,
Unequal Citizenship and Ethnic Boundaries in the Migration Experience of Polish Roma
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Ignacy Jóźwiak,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Sonia Styrkacz,
Monika Szewczyk,
The deeper meaning of making pierogi online
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Marta Anacka,
Michał P. Garapich,
Marta Jaroszewicz,
Magdalena Lesińska,
Kamila Fiałkowska,
CMR Spotlight May 2019
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Same but different – another migration from Poland under scrutiny of CMR scholars
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Michał P. Garapich,
‘I Don’t Want This Town to Change’: Resistance, Bifocality and the Infra-Politics of Social Remittances
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Michał P. Garapich,
Kamila Fiałkowska,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Why Do Roma Migrate? A Critical Analysis of Academic Silence in Polish Scholarship
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Roma Migrations – Transnationalism and Identity in Anthropological Perspective
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Anthropology of the Migration of Polish Roma: Filling the Gap in the Migration and Roma Studies
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Krytyczna analiza naukowej ciszy, czyli dlaczego Romowie migrują (z naszego pola widzenia)
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Migration Paths of Polish Roma “Between Tradition and Change – Migration Paths of Polish Roma”
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Michał P. Garapich,
Izabela Grabowska,
Ewa Jaźwińska,
Migracje poakcesyjne z Polski
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Kamila Fiałkowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz,
Critical analysis of the academic silence – or why do the Roma emigrate (from our sight)
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Izabela Grabowska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Social remittances and intra-EU mobility: nonfinancial transfers between UK and Poland
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Izabela Grabowska,
Ewa Jaźwińska,
Michał P. Garapich,
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna,
Migrants as Agents of Change
