1st Edition
Migration and Race Central and Eastern European Perspectives
List of contributors
Foreword - Hana Červinková
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kasia Narkowicz, Anna Gawlewicz and Konrad Pędziwiatr
Chapter 1: Buses that come full circle: Ukrainian “whiteness”, labour migrants and race on eastern margins
Daria Krivonos
Chapter 2: Reflections from the Borderlands: On hegemonic whiteness and the construction of Polish hostile environment
Kamila Fiałkowska and Natalia Judzińska
Chapter 3: “We are here because…” Reading the postsocialist (back) into a migrant politics of presence
Špela Drnovšek Zorko
Chapter 4: Perception and negotiation of the racialised class identity in the UK among young Lithuanian and Polish migrants
Irma Budginaitė-Mačkinė and Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek
Chapter 5: Migrating racialisations, making of Polishness and the production of whiteness: Roma and Gadje from Poland
Monika Szewczyk, Sonia Styrkacz, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz and Michał P. Garapich
Chapter 6: Racialisation, ethnic competition and legacies of colonialism: Peripherally white workers’ position in global racial hierarchies
Anna Safuta
Chapter 7: From the East in the East? Young migrants from Poland in Central and Eastern Europe
Milena Błahuta
Epilogue: On Partial Privilege
Ivan Kalmar
Index
Biography
Kasia Narkowicz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Law and Social Sciences, Middlesex University London, UK.
Anna Gawlewicz is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Konrad Pędziwiatr is a Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland.
“Migration and Race: Central and Eastern European Perspectives is an important contribution to the historical entanglements of Central and East Europe in the global colonial expansion and the way those legacies have come to shape ongoing bordering, migration and racialization processes in the region. Being a result of collective thinking and writing through the solidarity network Postdependence Geographies in Central and Eastern Europe, the book is essential reading for those interested in epistemic shifts and pluriversal approaches to the geopolitics of former Central and Eastern Europe with empirical insights on anti-racism and migration in the region.” — Piro Rexhepi, UCL, London, UK
"Dealing with semiperipheral locations such as Europe’s East requires difficult balancing acts: naming the region without reifying it, deconstructing longstanding tropes without claiming to decolonize the knowledge that produced them, addressing the researchers’ positionality even as it shifts for those migrating and for those staying put. This much-needed volume walks this tightrope skillfully by showcasing patterns of migration and racialization in a part of Europe little associated with either." — Manuela Boatcă, University of Freiburg, Germany
