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Migration Decision-Making Process by Migrants, Refugees and Forced Migrants: Between Choice and Coercion

Data publikacji: 09.06.2025

Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 2025 (LI), Nr 1 (195), s. 11-35

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.25.001.21384

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Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska
Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
, Polska
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Agnieszka Bielewska
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
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Tytuły

Migration Decision-Making Process by Migrants, Refugees and Forced Migrants: Between Choice and Coercion

Abstrakt

Migration decision-making has been a central theme in migration studies, with extensive research and attempts at theoretical analysis. The existing theoretical literature frequently limits decision-making to specific migrant categories and pre-mobility stages of migration, leaving out other groups such as forced migrants (including refugees), as well as later stages of migration.
This paper critically explores the present discourse on migration decision-making and proposes a new approach that sees decision-making as inherent in all types of migrants and all migration stages. The proposed model depicts choice and coercion as extremes on a continuum, and emphasising decision-making as a critical component of every migration phase. The analysis was carried out using two complementary methods: expert identification of key theoretical perspectives and a systematic literature review. First the sample was built with a use of a Scopus database search and the themes of papers were identified, then a qualitative analysis of the top cited papers followed. As a result, a new model of migration decision-making is developed and presented in the paper.

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Informacje: Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 2025 (LI), Nr 1 (195), s. 11-35

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-7786

Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska
Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
, Polska
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-7786 Orcid
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Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie
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Publikacja: 09.06.2025

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Agnieszka Bielewska (Autor) - 50%

Informacje o autorze:

Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska is an Associate Professor, and a head of Department of Applied Economics at the Krakow University of Economics. She has been a part of several international research groups, including those co-financed by the European Commission, focusing on migrant integration (MINTE) (ERASMUS+), youth unemployment in the European Union (7th Framework Programme), the information society (5th Framework Programme), informal work (5th Framework Programme), social economy (INTERREG IIIC), and support for the elderly (INTERREG IVC). She is a member of the Polish Economic Society (PTE). Her research interests encompass globalisation, migration, labour market, welfare states, and ageing societies. She has written and co-authored numerous articles in both Polish and English. She has been an alumni of Erste Stiftung (Vienna), Central European University (Budapest), University of Limerick, and the European Sociological Research Consortium. As an expert, she collaborates with a variety of public and private sector institutions at both national and international levels.

Agnieszka Bielewska is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wrocław. She earned her PhD in sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on migration policies, migrant integration, and national identity. She is a member of two international research groups in Erasmus+ programs: MINTE (which focuses on migrants‘ integration and digitalisation) and Act4Mig (which focuses on the teachers working with refugee students). She is a principal investigator for the Polish National Science Centre project “Comparing three generations of fathers in Poland and Germany”. She previously served as the chief investigator for the Polish National Science Centre project “Integration of Polish return migrants in the context of research on Aliyah”. She published alongside Peter Lang and journals such as Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Ethnicities, International Migration, or Global Network.

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