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Kamila Fiałkowska is a researcher at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on emigration from Poland, specifically seasonal migration from Poland to Germany and post accession emigration of Poles to the UK. She has worked on a projects on seasonal migrants from Poland to Germany (founded by Polish-German Foundation for Science) and on masculinities in migration looking at how gender practices affects the integration prospects of Polish migrants in the UK (founded by Polish National Science Centre). Currently she is involved into research project on migration of Polish Roma. Her research interests revolve around gender relations in migratory settings, masculinity studies and family relations, construction of national and gender identities. She defended her PhD in 2018 at the Faculty of Political Studies and International Relations at the University of Warsaw, completed MA in Political Science at the University of Wroclaw (2008) and MA in Migration Studies at the University of Sussex (2009).
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Selected publications
- Olena Babakova, Kamila Fiałkowska, Marta Kindler, Lidia Zessin-Jurek, Who is a ‘true’ refugee? On the limits of Polish hospitality
- Mateusz Krępa, Kamila Fiałkowska, “Researchers at the Border”, or on social responsibility of researchers in documenting the border crisis
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Sonia Styrkacz, Monika Szewczyk, The deeper meaning of making pierogi online
- Marta Anacka, Michał P. Garapich, Marta Jaroszewicz, Magdalena Lesińska, Kamila Fiałkowska, CMR Spotlight May 2019
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Same but different – another migration from Poland under scrutiny of CMR scholars
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Karolina Łukasiewicz, Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Humanitarian crisis at the Polish-Belarusian frontier. Old and new diagnoses from external EU borders
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Kamil Matuszczyk, Safe and fruitful? Structural vulnerabilities in the experience of seasonal migrant workers in agriculture in Germany and Poland.
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Anna Rosińska, Olga Cojocaru, On the Migrants or With the Migrants? Art, Academia and Challenges to Participatory Action Research
- Michał P. Garapich, Kamila Fiałkowska, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Why Do Roma Migrate? A Critical Analysis of Academic Silence in Polish Scholarship
- Jakub Stachowski, Kamila Fiałkowska, “Living on the edge”? A comparative study of processes of marginalisation among Polish migrants in rural Germany and Norway.
- Kamila Fiałkowska, ‘By Education I’m Catholic’. The Gender, Religion and Nationality Nexus in the Migration Experience of Polish Men to the UK
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Roma Migrations – Transnationalism and Identity in Anthropological Perspective
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Anthropology of the Migration of Polish Roma: Filling the Gap in the Migration and Roma Studies
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Krytyczna analiza naukowej ciszy, czyli dlaczego Romowie migrują (z naszego pola widzenia)
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Remote fatherhood and visiting husbands: seasonal migration and men’s position within families, Comparative Migration Studies
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Cyber space: a refuge for hegemonic masculinity among Polish migrants in the UK
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Negotiating masculinities: Polish male migrants in the UK – insights from an intersectional perspective
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Migration Paths of Polish Roma “Between Tradition and Change – Migration Paths of Polish Roma”
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Agata Górny, Migracje czasowe
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Critical analysis of the academic silence – or why do the Roma emigrate (from our sight)
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Mathias Wagner, Knochenjob in Urlaub. Erlebnisse einer polnischen Saisonarbeiterin
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Maria Piechowska, New way, old pattern. Seasonal migration from Poland to Germany
Research projects
- Essential workers or essential hands for work? Multisited research on migrant farmworkers safety in Poland and Germany (duration: 2021 - 2023)
- Transnational lives of Polish Roma – Migration, family and ethnic boundary making in changing European Union (duration: 2019 - 2022)
- GLARUS / Global Labour in Rural Societies (duration: 2017 - 2021)
- Atlas of Transitions. Cross Geographies for a Cross-Cultural Europe (duration: 2017 - 2020)
- Continuity or change – anthropological analysis of Polish Roma migration paths to Great Britain (duration: 2016 - 2018)
- Polish migrants in the United Kingdom: (re)negotiation and (re)construction of masculinity in the super-diverse environment (duration: 2016 - 2017)
- Substituality of internal and international migration (duration: 2014 - 2016)
- Labour migrants from Central and Eastern Europe in the Nordic countries: Patterns of migration, working conditions and recruitment practices (duration: 2011 - 2012)
- Socio-cultural effects of seasonal migration for local societies: Case of Poland and Germany (duration: 2009 - 2011)