In her newly published paper, Agnieszka Kosiorowska-Le Rall argues that Polish migrants in France negotiate their identity through embracing or distancing themselves from various discourses on race, sexuality and religion. Link: bit.ly/4mK6Ubx @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

@dorijano.bsky.social argues that Albanian 'irregular' migration to the UK should not be viewed solely as a criminal act. Rather, it emerges from governance-produced statuses and is shaped by sociocultural practices. Link: bit.ly/4dXTIxB @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Olga Wanicka’s article explores how a vlogger blurs formal and informal roles by playing with the expectations and needs via ‘performance authenticity’, achieved thanks to the mediated presence and intimacy. Link: bit.ly/49szecp @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Ivan Kozachenko examines diasporic engagements with the homeland and the effect of conflict on diaspora-homeland relationships, demonstrating that despite the Russian existential threat to Ukraine, the Ukrainian World Congress has not resorted to radical or ‘transgressive’ rhetoric and actions.

Ráchel Surányi and Endre Sik compare Hungary and Poland in terms of xenophobia, showing that its level is, and likely to remain, higher in Hungary due to the continuous anti-refugee government propaganda campaign and a mix of political, historical and cultural effects. bit.ly/4jy28fF

Analysis of Tamás Varga, Zsófia Rakovics and Endre Sik indicates that Hungarian pro-government media altered the emotional framing of refugees directly after the Russian–Ukrainian war outbreak; however, longitudinal patterns reveal reversion to pre-existing framing practices. Link: bit.ly/49dz49R

Endre Sik and Péter Krekó explain the role of the moral panic button (MPB) in creating crisis- and fear-mongering campaigns, arguing that it is crucial in building the Hungarian version of informational autocracy (IA). Link: bit.ly/4brCAyN @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @akazlowska.bsky.social

Dumitru Sandu examines the relationship between the return migration of Romanians and re-emigration abroad. Returnees who plan to go abroad again are more dissatisfied with public institutions in Romania than those who have not and do not plan to emigrate. bit.ly/4qNpHnf

In her article, Neva Öztürk warns that excessive flexibility in temporary protection erodes legal certainty, expands discretion, and threatens protection standards. Link: bit.ly/3N3kkBS @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Ráchel Surányi and Éva Bognár illustrate how the Hungarian government’s approach towards refugees shifted between 2015 and 2022, not altering the main narrative, but introducing a new aspect of deservingness. Link: bit.ly/49nR9AO @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @akazlowska.bsky.social

In his newly published paper, Jonathan Scovil demonstrates that future-oriented narratives explain contrasting Polish views on migrants from Belarus and Ukraine. Link: bit.ly/4960pe9 @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @akazlowska.bsky.social

Marilena Nicula shows in her new paper that flexible residency rules and higher wages drive Romanian medical graduates to migrate, mainly to Germany, UK, France, Sweden, and Belgium. Link: bit.ly/3YTb1Hg

Dushi reveals how first-generation of #Kosovo Albanian migrants, like the Gastarbeiter ones, rather engaged in passive or survival-based strategies while younger generations (children of the first generation but also migrants who came after 1989) tend to integrate more proactively: bit.ly/4nQL1qF

New: @MartaKindler & Maciej Tygielski present how migrant organisations and social-media platforms emerged to fill in the gaps of operational uncertainty regarding implementation of temporary protection for Ukrainians in Poland: bit.ly/45Y3WJR

Have a look at temporary protection in the #US. Inlender sees the US schemes such as Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) to be a crucial mechanism in the face of a declining Refugee Convention, however, with the risk of subjectivity, solitariness and instability: bit.ly/4nlf7C9

Amna Shafqat: the access to higher education for refugees is constrained by lack of contacts and integrative activities with society in #Czechia while the state has no measures, schemes or strategies to support the asylum beneficiaries in that matter. Link bit.ly/4lgLpwG @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Miha Zobec in his historical analysis argues that diaspora-building in interwar Yugoslavia was linked to overcoming internal divisions and restoring political legitimacy in the country ill-equipped to provide support for its citizens abroad. Link: bit.ly/3J66M6t @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Anna Sára Ligeti (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Univ. of Pécs) draws a methodological conclusion that interrupted time-series analysis methods can be employed to quantify the impact of significant future events and policy changes on migration processes: bit.ly/450lTqR @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Pavić, Žanić & Bendra, drawing on their research in #Croatia, point out that the intention to stay in a peripheral local community is related to higher place attachment, traditionalism, and a lower preference for personal autonomy: bit.ly/45gSeZp @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Waterbury @ohiou.bsky.social argues that hybrid regimes co-opt and control #diaspora organisations through curtailing opposition access, expanding patronage networks, & establishing ideological hegemony through media activities - for their geopolitical goals: bit.ly/4mDWyJl @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Artūras Tereškinas (Vytautas Magnus University) employs the concepts of ‘sticky emotions’ and ‘homemaking’ to analyse #queer migration as a ‘process of emotional disentanglement from the home country and emotional attachment to host countries‘. Link: bit.ly/4o8WjYh @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Aadne Aasland (Oslo Metropolitan University) & Oleksandra Deineko (Oslo Metropolitan University & Karazin Kharkiv National University) point out that #Ukrainian refugees in #Norway often decide to leave this welfare state due to the feeling of loyalty to their homeland. More: bit.ly/4m5zqTw

Małgorzata Odolczyk addresses the governance of #refugees #integration in #Poland and argues that #gender is not discursively constructed as threatened by the influx of migrants, as it is rarely claimed to be a part of Polish national identity ‘in danger’: bit.ly/45mjTJm @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

Check out our new issue with 9 articles on such topics as transnationalism, Ukrainian refugees, and acculturation. As always #openaccess: https//ceemr.uw.ed...

New: Vidra (HUN-REN, Eötvös Loránd Univ) & Messing (HUN-REN, CEU) argue that Hungarian government media instrumentalised Ukrainian refugees by emphasising its own political agenda, which contrasted with the more humanitarian focus present in independent media. Link: bit.ly/3GVGHGe

New article: Jan Bazyli Klakla, Paulina Szydłowska-Klakla, and Marisol Navas proposed variation of the acculturation model which emphasises the relational nature of values, positioning them as a transversal element present in every psychosocial domain. Link: bit.ly/42XS1Kt @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

New paper: Yulia Kiselyova & Viktoriia Ivashchenko, from the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, provide strong support for recognizing the process of self-identification among Ukrainian academics as a distinct and significant form of agency. Link: bit.ly/4j1zX7Y @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

New: Zdeněk Uherek & Veronika Beranská show the growing importance of institutional ties in the destinations for Czech diaspora: although diasporas are dispersed and their members do not communicate with each other, they are capable of joint action: bit.ly/4jhoj8P @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

New: Papp, Kovács, & Kováts from the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, drawing on Hungarian Diaspora Policy, describe three distinctive categories of Hungarian emigrants regarding how they undergo processes of diasporization. Link: bit.ly/4j2CE9v @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

New: Baldacchino, Krčál, Naxera, Mochernak, Gekić, Redmond, drawing on their study in Plzeň, argue that "beer explains the world" as migrants of all kinds - from workers to brewers - are behind beers that may be marketed as national identity symbols. Link: bit.ly/4kINC58 @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

We remind you of our previous papers on Ukrainians displaced after 2022. Oleksii Pozniak from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine argued in 2023 to improve the situation of foreigners remaining in UA or planning to return there after the end of the war (link in a comment)

New: Aneta Skorupa-Wulczyńska addresses the high dropout rate of Ukrainian minors under TP in Poland and argues that states’ failure to efficiently implement language policy in schools strongly contributes to the social disintegration of young migrants (link in a comment). @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

New: Aigerim Yerken & Lan Anh Nguyen Luu from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University described the ‘cultural encapsulation’ phenomenon among Kazakhstani students in Hungary who started to value their own cultural identity abroad more than they did in Kazakhstan: bit.ly/41bvxn5

Three years after the full-scale Russian invasion, we stand with #Ukraine and attempt to provide both knowledge about the displacement induced by the war and give voice to Ukrainian scholars. Check out our special section devoted to this topic: ceemr.uw.edu.pl/issues/vol-1...

In 2016, Mike Haynes & Aleksandra Galasińska from the University of Wolverhampton, drawing on a qualitative analysis of selected comments from the gazeta.pl website, argued that workplace was key in the transmission of social remittances by Poles in the #UK: bit.ly/3WUEDUh

Reminder for those researching histories and current dynamics of migration and race-making in the East of Europe? We invite critical reflections on racialisation and the intersections of migration processes with colonial/imperial histories and their afterlives. More: bit.ly/3NG8Ime

Thank you for being with us in 2024! We keep working on more novel and critical research on migration from, to, and within Central and Eastern Europe.

Grateful to the Authors & Reviewers who worked with us in 2024. We wish you Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Have a look at our in-house Editorial team: @zbrunarska.bsky.social, Magdalena Lesińska, Agata Górny, @matkre.bsky.social, Renata Stefańska, @akazlowska.bsky.social & absent Marta Kindler.

Are you researching histories and current dynamics of migration and race-making in the East of Europe? We invite critical reflections on racialisation and the intersections of migration processes with colonial/imperial histories and their afterlives. More: bit.ly/3NG8Ime

Check out our new issue with 9 articles on topics such as integration, returns, and migration policies. As always #openaccess: www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/issues/vol-1...

Gëdeshi, King & Ceka conducted an online survey of 301 Albanian doctors working abroad & 25 follow-up interviews to find out that most emigrant medics do not plan to return to #Albania. However, the authors offer some solutions to mitigate the brain drain: bit.ly/4iuHNqR

‪Anna Lukešová from the Charles University in Prague found out that a more multi-level governance approach to integration policies was present in the centralised state of Czechia than in the federal state of Austria - contrary to what could be expected drawing on literature. Link: bit.ly/3Zz86Ui

New: Zane Meļķe from the University of Latvia, drawing on 16 in-depth biographical interviews, depicts return migration to #Latvia as emotionally driven and stresses the later difficulties in returnees' adaptation in the home country which lead to re-emigration: ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-13-no-2-...

The research by Vainius Bartasevičius from Vilnius University, based on European Values Study 2017, shows that the variables of social trust and the content of national identity were associated with both economic and cultural concerns over immigration in CEE: ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-13-no-2-...

Ilona Bontenbal (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology) argues that social remittances shared by #Russian migrants about life in #Finland often fail to be accepted for reasons such as the strength of both position of traditional media in Russia and propaganda against the 'West': bit.ly/4f8uN7j

New article: Eunike Piwoni from Universität Passau, drawing on interviews with 22 highly educated Germans of Polish descent, outlines four types of interviewees in terms of how their identities relate to experiences of exclusion ‘on the peripheries of whiteness’: ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-13-no-2-...

New article: An Nguyễn Hữu & Phương Lê Duy Mai disclose the (in)visibility of the Vietnamese’s political integration into Polish society, exhibited by a low involvement level in latent activities and a very low rate of engagement in the manifest ones: bit.ly/3YQhZwr

The next online first paper is by Wojciech Bedyński who analysed the impact of Brexit & Covid-19 pandemic on Polish diaspora in the UK and argued that these phenomena were not the direct factors of return but rather of reflection & making decisions which have been postponed for years: bit.ly/4ddhem4

We start presenting our recent online-first papers. Daniele Saracino shows how the logic of responsibility allocation in the CEAS violates the EU solidarity principle and demonstrates that the implementation of the TP Directive has not ended the resulting solidarity crisis: bit.ly/3QiqgFK

All the issues and online-first articles you can find on our website: ceemr.uw.edu.pl. Open access as always.