{"title":"Anthropological Knowledge in the Voluntary Actions for the Benefit of Immigrants from the Guarded Centres for Foreigners in Poland. A post factum Reflection on the Project","authors":"Agnieszka Chwieduk","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.032.17205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.032.17205","url":null,"abstract":"The postulate of openness to Others is practiced both by anthropologists and active volunteers. In the case of the former, it is a condition for the acquisition of knowledge on the diversity of ways of life in the world and undertaking actions in the activist paradigm, while with reference to the latter, it is not only tantamount to assistance, but also the basic premise behind their actions. This common ethical perspective turned out to inspire reflections on how the anthropological knowledge can be useful for volunteer activity, which by the way is often understood in practice as ‘helping others out of one’s own accord’. As a result, in 2021/22 the didactic project An Anthropologist – an Expert in Voluntary Activity. Improving Communication Competencies in the Situation of Intercultural Contact was developed in the Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Adam Mickiewicz University.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117026527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Need for the Education of Officers and Civilian Employees of Guarded Centres for Foreigners","authors":"Piotr Boćko","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.039.17212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.039.17212","url":null,"abstract":"This text undertakes to turn the readers’ attention to one of the many training areas of the Border Guard and open up a discussion on the possibility to create, among the courses and training offered to the officers and civilian employees of this service, a special sub-system dedicated to people employed in detention centres. This is because even a preliminary analysis of tasks carried out by officers and civilian employees of detention centres indicates that users of this specific institutional space need to have special professional qualifications in situations involving close cultural contact. This paper highlights only a fragment of a very broad map of problems related to designing the knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as attitudes of people directly involved in the operation of these institutions. The necessity to build social processes between many social actors from such centres in the closed institutional space, and cooperation with external institutions, generate many factors hindering the performance of official tasks. For this reason, it is so vital to equip officers and civilian employees with the essential skills, abilities and knowledge so that they are able to appropriately react to the problems and needs of foreigners, and reduce the emerging threats and conflicts.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115398359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spaces and Places of Detention of Foreigners","authors":"J. Schmidt","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.036.17209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.036.17209","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the characteristics of the space and places of guarded centres for foreigners in Poland. It contains a discussion of universal features of the detention space for foreigners typical of the total institution, stocktaking of the centres’ space and the places which fill it, as well as characteristics of the ways of using the space and their determinants. The general perspective of the perception of the detention space focuses on its identification as a tool of authority and the execution of social control, domination and subjugation.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133915190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Law, Life, Impossibility: Theorising ‘Law Application’ in Detention Centres for Foreigners","authors":"Przemysław Tacik","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.034.17207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.034.17207","url":null,"abstract":"The paper attempts to grasp conceptually the nature of law application in zones of confined life. Drawing upon empirical research, it uses the example of closed centres for foreigners. Approaching the topic with methods of sociology of law and legal anthropology, as well as drawing on Agamben’s conceptualisations of law and life, I would like to propose a more general understanding of the role that law plays in total institutions such as detention centres. A great majority of legal provisions pertaining to them is stipulated with the intention of defending the detainees from abuses of power. Nonetheless, the positivist view of the law which translates noble principles, enshrined in constitutions and international law, into low-rank acts and then regulates the behaviour of officers, is at odds with the practice revealed by the sociological and anthropological research. The law remains a foreign body to officers: it is acknowledged as a body of rules which officially regulate all the actions of the institution, but in truth it functions rather as the Other’s gaze. It embodies external control and the possibility of intervention. As such, it never regulates the actions per se (it is too unfamiliar to do so), but rather constitutes an external foothold which stops officers from applying all the methods of discipline that they spontaneously invent. It also provides a free object of criticism which mediates between officers’ projected goals of border guards and their expected practice. Consequently, the vision of the law as a tool that ‘regulates’ detention centres is empirically contradicted. The paper addresses this relation with the use of Agambenian conceptuality, seeking points of contact between the law and life as well asking to what degree life is lawrepellent in confined zones.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128401879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People in Total Institutions. The Case of Border Guard Functionaries and Employees in Guarded Centres for Foreigners","authors":"D. Niedzwiedzki","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.037.17210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.037.17210","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to identify and analyse guarded centres for foreigners in Poland when considered as total institutions and the psycho-social consequences of such totalization on the officers and employees of the Border Guard who work in these centres. The above-mentioned consequences stem from their daily work in a total institution, primarily within the legal and socio-cultural conditions of the functioning of these centres and, secondly, in terms of the relationships between the staff employed in them, as well as between the staff and foreigners. In addition, they are also an effect of the simultaneous impact of the world outsid","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115110538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of Cooperation and Non-Cooperation – the Case of Polish Immigrant Organisations in Germany","authors":"Michał Nowosielski","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.017.15843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.017.15843","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to investigate the cooperation patterns characteristic of Polish immigrant organisations in Germany. A situation analysis suggests a relatively broad collaborative network, with more than 100 Polish immigrant organisations in existence. However, the practice of the organisations’ functioning shows that, in fact, PIOs often function in a kind of organisational vacuum. They cannot nor do not want to cooperate with a large group of potential partners. In the article, we will also try to justify this state of affairs and find the barriers that limit the possibilities of cooperation of Polish immigrant organisations in Germany.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115393768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wokół badania organizacji imigranckich – stare dylematy, nowe wyzwania","authors":"M. Nowosielski","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.009.15835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.009.15835","url":null,"abstract":"Projekt „Polskie organizacje imigranckie w Europie” realizowany w latach 2015–2020 (początkowo w Instytucie Zachodnim w Poznaniu, a od 2017 r. w Ośrodku Badań nad Migracjami Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego) miał dwa cele badawcze. Pierwszy z nich, o charakterze diagnostycznym, polegał na określeniu stanu polskich organizacji imigranckich w wybranych krajach europejskich – Norwegii, Szwecji, Niemczech, Holandii, Wielkiej Brytanii, Irlandii, Francji, Włoszech i Hiszpanii. Drugi miał charakter wyjaśniający i polegał na próbie znalezienia odpowiedzi na pytanie, co kształtuje stan polskich organizacji imigranckich w badanych krajach. Poprzez porównanie zjawisk i procesów występujących we wszystkich badanych krajach staraliśmy się odnaleźć zarówno podobieństwa, jak i różnice w sytuacji organizacji i czynnikach ją kształtujących.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114850564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Internal Functioning of Immigrant Organisations. The Case of Polish Voluntary Associations in France","authors":"J. Kubera","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.012.15838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.012.15838","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the internal aspects of the social sub-system of non-profit and voluntary associations in France, whose members are people holding Polish and dual Polish-French citizenships as well as French people of Polish origin and who pursue the goals related to the presence of the Polish immigrant and post-immigrant communities in France. In relation with these organisations, the article provides answers to the following questions: 1) What are their decision-making structures? 2) How mobile are the members within the structures and where does the mobility stem from? 3) What is the cooperation like between the movers and shakers in a specific organisation? The conclusions have been based on data from five case studies and 48 individual in-depth interviews revolving around typologically diverse associations plus data obtained in the course of an institutional opinion poll, carried out among Polish immigrant organisations with an online CAWI questionnaire completed by members of the Polish diaspora in France.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124898236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polish Immigrant Organisations in Italy within the Context of Invisibility","authors":"Agnieszka Legut","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.010.15836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.010.15836","url":null,"abstract":"In Italy, there are a number of formal organisations established and run by Polish immigrants and\u0000their descendants. The paper gives a brief account of the associations’ characteristics and describes how their internal factors – particularly social and cultural capital – have been primary determinants of their condition. The impact of human resources is particularly pronounced, since the Polish organisations in Italy remain largely unseen, either from the perspective of the country of origin or the country of residence, as well as relations between them. The invisibility context in which they pursue their goals and activities is discussed. Also, the ramifications of invisibility as a concept are given careful consideration. The analysis is based on the findings of a study that was conducted in the years 2016–2020 within the framework of the ‘Polish Immigrant Organisations in Europe’ research project.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117080852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Konfliktowy wymiar zorganizowania imigrantów – przypadek polskich organizacji imigranckich w Szwecji","authors":"W. Nowak, Martyna Plucińska-Nowak","doi":"10.4467/25444972smpp.22.016.15842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.22.016.15842","url":null,"abstract":"Pomimo że organizacja jest zazwyczaj definiowana jako grupa ludzi działających na rzecz osiągania wspólnych celów w ramach określonej struktury, to funkcjonowanie organizacji nie jest wolne od napięć, sporów czy konfliktów. Niniejszy artykuł skupia się na konfliktowym obliczu /lub/ wymiarze zorganizowanych grup ludzkich w specyficznym kontekście – w warunkach migracyjnych. Zaprezentowane w nim zostaną wyniki prac badawczych przeprowadzonych przy zastosowaniu strategii studium przypadku wśród polskich organizacji imigranckich w Szwecji. Zrekonstruowana i wyjaśniona zostanie w nim specyfika napięć i sporów występujących w polonijnym polu organizacyjnym: zarówno w samych polskich organizacjach imigranckich, pomiędzy nimi, jak też pomiędzy nimi a ich otoczeniem społecznym i instytucjonalnym.\u0000\u0000Although an organization is usually defined as a group of people working towards achieving common goals within a specific structure, the functioning of the organization is not free from tensions, disputes or conflicts. This article focuses on the conflict dimension of organized human groups in a specific context – in migratory conditions. It presents the results of research carried out using a case study strategy among Polish immigrant organizations in Sweden. It reconstructs and explains the specificity of tensions and disputes occurring in the Polish organizational field: both within the Polish immigrant organizations, between them, and between organizations and their social and institutional environment.","PeriodicalId":399721,"journal":{"name":"Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125848259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}