Olga Wanicka’s article explores how a vlogger blurs formal and informal roles by playing with the expectations and needs via ‘performance authenticity’, achieved thanks to the mediated presence and intimacy. Link: bit.ly/49szecp @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Ivan Kozachenko examines diasporic engagements with the homeland and the effect of conflict on diaspora-homeland relationships, demonstrating that despite the Russian existential threat to Ukraine, the Ukrainian World Congress has not resorted to radical or ‘transgressive’ rhetoric and actions.
Ráchel Surányi and Endre Sik compare Hungary and Poland in terms of xenophobia, showing that its level is, and likely to remain, higher in Hungary due to the continuous anti-refugee government propaganda campaign and a mix of political, historical and cultural effects. bit.ly/4jy28fF
Analysis of Tamás Varga, Zsófia Rakovics and Endre Sik indicates that Hungarian pro-government media altered the emotional framing of refugees directly after the Russian–Ukrainian war outbreak; however, longitudinal patterns reveal reversion to pre-existing framing practices. Link: bit.ly/49dz49R
Endre Sik and Péter Krekó explain the role of the moral panic button (MPB) in creating crisis- and fear-mongering campaigns, arguing that it is crucial in building the Hungarian version of informational autocracy (IA). Link: bit.ly/4brCAyN @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @akazlowska.bsky.social
Dumitru Sandu examines the relationship between the return migration of Romanians and re-emigration abroad. Returnees who plan to go abroad again are more dissatisfied with public institutions in Romania than those who have not and do not plan to emigrate. bit.ly/4qNpHnf
In her article, Neva Öztürk warns that excessive flexibility in temporary protection erodes legal certainty, expands discretion, and threatens protection standards. Link: bit.ly/3N3kkBS @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Ráchel Surányi and Éva Bognár illustrate how the Hungarian government’s approach towards refugees shifted between 2015 and 2022, not altering the main narrative, but introducing a new aspect of deservingness. Link: bit.ly/49nR9AO @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @akazlowska.bsky.social
In his newly published paper, Jonathan Scovil demonstrates that future-oriented narratives explain contrasting Polish views on migrants from Belarus and Ukraine. Link: bit.ly/4960pe9 @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social @akazlowska.bsky.social
Marilena Nicula shows in her new paper that flexible residency rules and higher wages drive Romanian medical graduates to migrate, mainly to Germany, UK, France, Sweden, and Belgium. Link: bit.ly/3YTb1Hg
Dushi reveals how first-generation of #Kosovo Albanian migrants, like the Gastarbeiter ones, rather engaged in passive or survival-based strategies while younger generations (children of the first generation but also migrants who came after 1989) tend to integrate more proactively: bit.ly/4nQL1qF
New: @MartaKindler & Maciej Tygielski present how migrant organisations and social-media platforms emerged to fill in the gaps of operational uncertainty regarding implementation of temporary protection for Ukrainians in Poland: bit.ly/45Y3WJR
Have a look at temporary protection in the #US. Inlender sees the US schemes such as Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) to be a crucial mechanism in the face of a declining Refugee Convention, however, with the risk of subjectivity, solitariness and instability: bit.ly/4nlf7C9
Amna Shafqat: the access to higher education for refugees is constrained by lack of contacts and integrative activities with society in #Czechia while the state has no measures, schemes or strategies to support the asylum beneficiaries in that matter. Link bit.ly/4lgLpwG @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Miha Zobec in his historical analysis argues that diaspora-building in interwar Yugoslavia was linked to overcoming internal divisions and restoring political legitimacy in the country ill-equipped to provide support for its citizens abroad. Link: bit.ly/3J66M6t @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Anna Sára Ligeti (HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Univ. of Pécs) draws a methodological conclusion that interrupted time-series analysis methods can be employed to quantify the impact of significant future events and policy changes on migration processes: bit.ly/450lTqR @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Pavić, Žanić & Bendra, drawing on their research in #Croatia, point out that the intention to stay in a peripheral local community is related to higher place attachment, traditionalism, and a lower preference for personal autonomy: bit.ly/45gSeZp @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Waterbury @ohiou.bsky.social argues that hybrid regimes co-opt and control #diaspora organisations through curtailing opposition access, expanding patronage networks, & establishing ideological hegemony through media activities - for their geopolitical goals: bit.ly/4mDWyJl @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Artūras Tereškinas (Vytautas Magnus University) employs the concepts of ‘sticky emotions’ and ‘homemaking’ to analyse #queer migration as a ‘process of emotional disentanglement from the home country and emotional attachment to host countries‘. Link: bit.ly/4o8WjYh @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Aadne Aasland (Oslo Metropolitan University) & Oleksandra Deineko (Oslo Metropolitan University & Karazin Kharkiv National University) point out that #Ukrainian refugees in #Norway often decide to leave this welfare state due to the feeling of loyalty to their homeland. More: bit.ly/4m5zqTw
Małgorzata Odolczyk addresses the governance of #refugees #integration in #Poland and argues that #gender is not discursively constructed as threatened by the influx of migrants, as it is rarely claimed to be a part of Polish national identity ‘in danger’: bit.ly/45mjTJm @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Check out our new issue with 9 articles on such topics as transnationalism, Ukrainian refugees, and acculturation. As always #openaccess: https//ceemr.uw.ed...
New: Vidra (HUN-REN, Eötvös Loránd Univ) & Messing (HUN-REN, CEU) argue that Hungarian government media instrumentalised Ukrainian refugees by emphasising its own political agenda, which contrasted with the more humanitarian focus present in independent media. Link: bit.ly/3GVGHGe
New article: Jan Bazyli Klakla, Paulina Szydłowska-Klakla, and
Marisol Navas proposed variation of the acculturation model which emphasises the relational nature of values, positioning them as a transversal element present in every psychosocial domain. Link: bit.ly/42XS1Kt @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
New paper: Yulia Kiselyova & Viktoriia Ivashchenko, from the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, provide strong support for recognizing the process of self-identification among Ukrainian academics as a distinct and significant form of agency. Link: bit.ly/4j1zX7Y @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
New: Zdeněk Uherek & Veronika Beranská show the growing importance of institutional ties in the destinations for Czech diaspora: although diasporas are dispersed and their members do not communicate with each other, they are capable of joint action: bit.ly/4jhoj8P @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
New: Papp, Kovács, & Kováts from the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, drawing on Hungarian Diaspora Policy, describe three distinctive categories of Hungarian emigrants regarding how they undergo processes of diasporization. Link: bit.ly/4j2CE9v @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
New: Baldacchino, Krčál, Naxera, Mochernak, Gekić, Redmond, drawing on their study in Plzeň, argue that "beer explains the world" as migrants of all kinds - from workers to brewers - are behind beers that may be marketed as national identity symbols. Link: bit.ly/4kINC58 @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
