The article presents the problem of applying various legal regulations regarding political rights in relation to foreigners from EU countries and foreigners from third countries in Poland. Political rights, which are one of the mechanism of political inclusion, are granted to foreigners from the EU who have permanent residence permit in Poland, then as other foreigners with the acquisition of citizenship. Such regulation leaves the largest group of foreigners excluded from local political life of the host community.

Since 2011 international intergovernmental organizations formulate new regulations and recommendations in area of business and human rights. In reference to them, there are also coming national regulations and new standards of responsible business conduct. What among others is expected from enterprises today is informing, how they implement human rights in their business practices. The first analyzes of reports released by companies from different countries, in terms of their approach to respect human rights, do not fill us with optimism. The assumption of this article is to review the latest regulations and standards regarding respect for human rights by enterprises, and then to confront these expectations with business practices in order to indicate the need to analyze the level of human rights awareness in the activities of enterprises.

The analysis of the role of the Muslim minority in Switzerland is the subject of this article. The Swiss political system is blocking the rights of Muslim religious minority and its full inte-gration in Switzerland  and in the Swiss society. In Switzerland, the negative impact of direct democracy on the integration of Muslim religious minority exists. Limitation of full rights for the minority confirms the phenomenon of dysfunctionality in the Swiss direct democracy system.

Women’s migrations are part of the context of global political, economic and social changes. The phenomenon of the growing feminisation of migration conditioned by a greater awareness of women, their emancipation, as well as autonomy. In the era of globalization, entering into marriages mixed is quite common and an interdisciplinary area researching many scientific studies.

Acculturation processes as complex and multidimensional are analyzed towards different domains, different fields in which both cultures change e.g. political, work, economic, family, social, religion… In all those fields it is important to search for solutions helping to incorporate immigrants in their new societies and allow effective coexistence between majorities and minorities. To analyze post-Brexit concerns of such nature among Polish immigrants, Psychologists from Polish University Abroad in London (PUNO) designed a research program: “Poles in Britain during Brexit.”

The aim of the article is to present an intriguing issue of multiculturalism in Durban, South Africa. The city’s social and cultural rapid development is based on tripolar culture of the African, Asian and European origin. Strongly rooted native Bantu culture repre-sented since 18th century by the Zulu tribe which collided with the European culture of Dutch and British origin. That is complemented by the rich Indian culture, which since the second half of the 19th century played a significant role in the development of the city.

This article introduces the principles of the mechanism of the scapegoat in its historical conditions and the new reality related to the appearance of the post-truth phenomenon. Differences between these realities have been presented in the context of issues related to the cognition and selection of data occurring within the framework of new media. On the basis of these considerations, a diagnosis of the political usefulness of the present mechanism and prospects for future development is formulated.

The article attempts to answer the question about the scope of post-truth phenomenon in the process of creating an atmosphere of moral panic – increased social unrest and the accompanying inadequate response of the media. The critical analysis of the media discourse on the analyses social issues allows to state that with the expansion of new technologies and the way of communicating, the frequency of creating false information increases, the specificity of the phenomenon of raising social anxiety and the creation of non-matching visions of reality is changing.

The purpose of this paper is to present the phenomenon of extensive academic mobility among Nepalese students, researchers and academics as an element of wider migration practices and social processes in this country. The context for the analysis is active participation of the Nepalese in the European Commission educational programme Erasmus Mundus Action 2 and their visits to Polish universities in the years 2010-2016. The article will prove that Nepalese youth are searching for new destinations of academic mobility.

The article describes how the Catalans involved in the recently agitated ethnic movement perceive their own space. The relationship between diversely defined territory and the community which inhabits it seems to be an important aspect of the ethnic identity. The attitude toward the space shows in the appreciation of the local nature, but I was also interested which particular places would be crucial for the whole Catalonia. The Catalan space in my informants’ opinion had an impact on the group’s national character.

The author examines autobiographical and collective memory of post-war migration that have shaped the Kaliningrad region. The paper is based on the fieldwork carried out in Kaliningrad between 2009 and 2018. The author focuses on memories and imaginations of the past of two generations of Kaliningrad’s inhabitant: first settlers and those born after the collapse of the USSR.