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Assistant Professor in the Department of Research on Social Change in Europe

Dr Karolina Czerska-Shaw

Dr Karolina Czerska-Shaw

  • Office: room 531         

About

Sociologist, Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Ph.D. obtained at Jagiellonian University in 2016). Her research interests include migration and mobility, European Union migration policies, citizenship, civic education, transnational civil society, migrant integration, and diversity management.
She had the opportunity to lecture at various institutions as a visiting professor, including Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City, University of Groningen in the Netherlands, Université de Strasbourg in France, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

Since 2010, she has been professionally affiliated with the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, where she conducts lectures and seminars on migration, refugees, citizenship, multiculturalism, collective identity transformations, anti-discrimination, and qualitative research methodologies.
She is a member of the Jagiellonian Centre for Migration Studies and collaborates with the Multiculturalism and Migration Observatory at the Cracow University of Economics. She is the author of numerous reports and studies on the integration of migrants in Krakow and Małopolska, participating in expert teams advising local and regional authorities in developing strategies for the integration of migrants. She is also a collaborator at the Multicultural Centre in Krakow.

 

 

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  • Czerska-Shaw, K. and Jacoby, T. (2023). Mapping Ukrainian Civicness Abroad in the War Effort: A Case Study of Poland (PeaceRep Ukraine Report). Conflict and Civicness Research Group, London School of Economics. Download the publication. 
  • Czerska-Shaw K., Kubicki P. (2023). Detecting Urban Resilience. Foreign Residents’ Perceptions and Experiences of Public Services in a Globalising City: A Case Study of Krakow. Central and Eastern European Migration Review: 1-19. doi: 10.54667/ceemr.2023.08
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Warat, M. (eds) (2023). Imagining the future of Europe. Social and political actors’ proposals on European integration. EU3D Report 13, July 2023. ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo. ​Download the publication.
  • Kubicki, P., Czerska-Shaw, K., Fantuz, F. (2023). Kapitał społeczny miasta globalizującego się. Studium przypadku Krakowa i Poznania. Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, DOI: 10.14746/cis.2023.55.2 
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Krzaklewska, E. (2022). Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule: Erasmus Mundus students in the European Higher Education Area, Mobilities, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1971053
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Gora, M., Sekerdej, K., Styczynska, N., Warat, M. &  Zielinska, K. (2022). Who's Dominating Whom? The Perception of (EU) Dominance in the Debate on the Future of Europe (December 7, 2022). EU3D Research Paper No. 26, 2022, ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo. Download the publication. 
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Krzaklewska, E. (2021). The super-mobile student: Global Educational trajectories in Erasmus Mundus”, in Cairns, D. (Ed) The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration.
  • Czerska-Shaw K., Galent, M., Gierat-Bieroń B. (eds) (2018). Visions and Revisions of Europe. Studies in Euroculture vol 4. Universitatsverlag Gottingen.
  • Czerska-Shaw, K. (2017). The Ghost in the Machine: An Overview and Analysis of British Multiculturalism, Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny; t. 43 nr 2 (164), p. 67-93
  • Czerska-Shaw, K, (2011). The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian? Negotiating National Identity through Citizenship Testing Materials, [in:], E. Bujnowksa, M. Gabryś, T. Sikora (eds.) Towards Critical Multiculturalism: Dialogues Between / Among Canadian Diaspora / Versun multiculturalisme critique: dialogues entre les diasporas canadiennes, Wyd. Para, Katowice 2011, p. 187-205.
  • K. Czerska. (2010). Integration Policies in France and the UK: An Analysis of the Discourse Surrounding Women’s Rights Within Civic Integration Handbooks [in:], M. Warat, A. Małek, A. (eds.), Ponad granicami: kobiety, migracje, obywatelstwo, Wyd. UJ, Kraków 2010, p. 227-253.

  • 2022-2025: RECLAIM: Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Post-Factual Age. Komisja Europejska, Horizon Europe. Grant Agreement no. 101061330. Interim project leader at the Jagiellonian University. 
  • 2022-2024: PeaceRep: Rethinking Peace & Transition Processes in a Changing Conflict Landscape. Consortium in the framework of collaboration with the Conflict and Civicness Research Group at the London School of Economics. Work package leader researching the civic mobilization of Ukrainians in Poland and European countries, focusing particularly on leaders of social organizations and entrepreneurs in the face of Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine. 
  • 2019-2023: EU3D: EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy, Research and Innovation Action (Societal Challenges 6: Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies), European Commission, Horizon 2020. Member of the research team. 
  • 2020: The situation of international students at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków], Project in the framework of the SocietyNow!  Grant of the JU, 2020. Member of research team.       
  • 2013-2016: The socio-cultural identification of foreigners, NCBiR. Member of research team.