Issue 3 (193)

2024 (L)

Publication date: 29.01.2025

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Sekretarz redakcji Kamil Łuczaj

Editor-in-Chief Jan Brzozowski

Issue content

Research Papers

Polityka migracyjna jako narzędzie wspierania rozwoju regionalnego

Wojciech Janicki

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Issue 3 (193), 2024 (L), pp. 9-26

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.24.028.21032

In common parlance, the most important operational goal set for migration policy is to manage the streams of international migration in such a way as to achieve strategic goals in the social, economic or political arena. The subject of such a policy, and at the same time its author, main actor and executor, is the state. Poland, in the middle of the decade of the 2020s, is in a situation of profound backwardness when it comes to constructing a traditional migration policy. In order to take advantage of the backwardness rent, the promotion of regional development should be pointed out to, as one of the goals of migration policy. This policy should be aimed at the growth of the most important of development capitals – human capital – and its key element should be a system of administrative incentives for immigrants urging them to live in regions in a need of special support.

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Ochrona cudzoziemców w Polsce na gruncie konstytucyjnych zasad oraz standardów europejskich

Katarzyna Chrostowska-Malak

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Issue 3 (193), 2024 (L), pp. 27-57

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.24.016.20444

The aim of the paper is to identify and analyse the problems of foreigner protection in Poland in the light of the constitutional principles and European standards and in reference to the current migration situation in Poland. The values and priorities of states and societies are most evident in crisis situations, especially when they refer to foreigners who apply for help and protection and are referred to as “others” or “aliens”. The intention of the author is to demonstrate that problems that arise from international conflicts or crises cannot be solved only on the national level, within own actions and competences. The protection of the greatest good, i.e. state security and human rights, requires applying adequate measures that are proportional to the threats; these values cannot be presented as opposites. It might be noticed that the existing political and legal solutions do not keep up with the changing situation and the emerging needs. The eternal sui generis race between practice and normative regulations has always been presented in a sharp way in the field of the analysed problem.
Due to the multi-faceted, legal and political nature of the subject, the author used research methods that are characteristic for social sciences, i.e. institutional and legal analysis, social analysis, descriptive and comparative analysis, and the historical method.

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Jeżeli powiesz, że jesteś Ukraińcem, to nikt Ci tu nie da karty. Analiza kryteriów przynależności do narodu polskiego w postępowaniu o przyznanie Karty Polaka

Marcin Czaja

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Issue 3 (193), 2024 (L), pp. 59-81

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.24.027.21031

This study analyzes the criteria for membership in the Polish nation within the context of the procedure for granting the Pole’s Card (Karta Polaka), which has been integrated into the responsibilities of voivodeship offices following the outbreak of war beyond Poland’s eastern border. The research focuses on evaluating the candidate verification process, emphasizing the subjectivity and lack of uniform standards in assessing Polish identity criteria. In addition to discussing the theoretical foundations of the nation-state and the factors influencing its formation, the paper provides a detailed analysis of empirical data gathered through in-depth interviews with applicants for the Pole’s Card and officials involved in the implementation of this procedure. Furthermore, the article examines and explores the content of a negative decision issued by one of the voivodeship offices, offering a deeper understanding of the practical application of the specified criteria. The author’s insider perspective–as a former inspector in the Department for Foreigners and currently a migrants’ advocate with over five years of experience in this field–facilitates the mapping of the issues and the extraction of nuances previously inaccessible in studies conducted solely from a theoretical perspective. The ultimate aim of the article is to present the idealized image of a member of the Polish nation as envisioned by state officials.

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Negotiating Masculinity in the Relationships of the Maasai Men from Tanzania and Migrant Women from the Global North

Elżbieta Wiejaczka

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Issue 3 (193), 2024 (L), pp. 83-103

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.24.010.19680

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Czy koniec wielkiej ucieczki z peryferii? O/polska młodzież wobec migracji i rynku pracy w przeszłości i obecnie

Romuald Jończy

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Issue 3 (193), 2024 (L), pp. 105-127

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.24.018.20576

The article focuses on the changes that have occurred over the last twenty years in terms of population drainage, particularly among young people, from non-metropolitan areas of the country. It presents the main factors determining these transformations: demographic changes, shifts in the labour market (including structural changes), as well as changes in lifestyles and value systems among young people, with a particular emphasis on Generation Z. The analysis was conducted in the context of the growing developmental disparities between metropolitan centers and the rest of the country. The study also highlights impulses and transformations that limit the exodus of young people from peripheral areas, such as labour market dispersion, housing market conditions, opportunities for remote activities, and changes in youth preferences and value systems. The findings are based on research conducted by the author (or in collaboration with the author) in the Opole and Lower Silesia provinces and other regions of Poland.

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The Difficult Fortune of Polish Artists and Writers in Canada

Anna Reczyńska

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Issue 3 (193), 2024 (L), pp. 129-143

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.23.021.18690

Modern day Canada is perceived as a country that is open to immigrants, or even actually in need of migrants who would be willing to settle there. However, in the twentieth century, some immigrants of creative profession (artists, painters, writers, poets, journalists) who wanted to continue their professional activity in Canada faced different problems: both in adaptation with the host society and one’s own ethnic group. In this paper I would like to focus on the examples of some Polish emigrants (e.g.: Michal Choromański, Rafał Malczewski, Zofia Bogdanowiczowa, Jadwiga Jurkszus- Tomaszewska, Adam Tomaszewski, Wacław Iwaniuk, Florian Śmieja, Bogdan Czaykowski, Roman Sabo, Edward Zyman, Marek Kusiba) to present the peculiarity of the life of emigrant creators – the issues and obstacles they encounter both in Canadian society and in the Polish diaspora, as well as different individual strategies of avoiding or overcoming these problems.

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Reviews, discussions, polemics

Rzeczywisty stosunek Kościoła katolickiego do migrantów i uchodźców. Recenzja książki Rafała Cekiery: Uchodźcy, migranci i Kościół katolicki. Polska debata migracyjna po 2015 roku w kontekście nauczania Kościoła katolickiego

Joanna Janiszewska

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Issue 3 (193), 2024 (L), pp. 147-150

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.24.017.20575

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Słowa kluczowe: migration policy, regional development, peripheral regions, foreigners, refugees, foreigner protection, state border protection, state security, Pole’s Card, nation-state, nationalism, office, national consciousness, Migration, depopulation, sustainable development, labour market, youth, Polish emigrant artist, Polish emigrant writers, Polish diaspora in Canada