Kamila Fiałkowska
@kamilafialkowska.bsky.social
Researcher @Centre of Migration Research, PI: https://rocit.pl/, member of Researchers on the Border: https://www.bbng.org. On the road between Lower Silesia-Mazovia-Podlaskie (🇵🇱) & Transcarpathia (🇺🇦), 🧐: borders/migration/gender/inequalities & citizenship
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We talked at the annual conference of Committee on Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science abt ongoing humanitarian crisis on Poland-Belarus border, especially after the suspension of right to asylum, introduced by the pro-european & liberal Civic Coalition. All quiet on the Eastern border.
September 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We talked at the annual conference of Committee on Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science abt ongoing humanitarian crisis on Poland-Belarus border, especially after the suspension of right to asylum, introduced by the pro-european & liberal Civic Coalition. All quiet on the Eastern border.
Perks of being an interdisciplinary migration scholar?
- your inbox gifts you with an invitation to share your “expertise” at very weird conferences.
Do I work on migration, borders, and such? Yes.
Do I understand quantum entanglement? Only in the metaphorical sense ;)
#predatoryconferencing
- your inbox gifts you with an invitation to share your “expertise” at very weird conferences.
Do I work on migration, borders, and such? Yes.
Do I understand quantum entanglement? Only in the metaphorical sense ;)
#predatoryconferencing
September 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Perks of being an interdisciplinary migration scholar?
- your inbox gifts you with an invitation to share your “expertise” at very weird conferences.
Do I work on migration, borders, and such? Yes.
Do I understand quantum entanglement? Only in the metaphorical sense ;)
#predatoryconferencing
- your inbox gifts you with an invitation to share your “expertise” at very weird conferences.
Do I work on migration, borders, and such? Yes.
Do I understand quantum entanglement? Only in the metaphorical sense ;)
#predatoryconferencing
Heading into holiday mode, but with unease abt what awaits after. The presidential veto on extending financial support for Ukrainian refugees in Poland leaves many in uncertainty. From fieldwork in collective accommodation centres in PL, -->
notesfrompoland.com/2025/08/25/p...
notesfrompoland.com/2025/08/25/p...
President vetoes law extending support for Ukrainian refugees in Poland
notesfrompoland.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Heading into holiday mode, but with unease abt what awaits after. The presidential veto on extending financial support for Ukrainian refugees in Poland leaves many in uncertainty. From fieldwork in collective accommodation centres in PL, -->
notesfrompoland.com/2025/08/25/p...
notesfrompoland.com/2025/08/25/p...
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Kamila Fiałkowska @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social and Ivan Kozachenko from the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) took part in this year’s ICCEES XI World Congress, held from 21–25 July 2025 at University College London 1/3
July 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Kamila Fiałkowska @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social and Ivan Kozachenko from the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) took part in this year’s ICCEES XI World Congress, held from 21–25 July 2025 at University College London 1/3
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So good to see everyone and many thanks for the discussion #ICCEES2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
So good to see everyone and many thanks for the discussion #ICCEES2025
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If you're at #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social in London, pop into the roundtable on 'Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe' on Wednesday at 4.30 pm - with Karolina Follis, @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Kasia Narkowicz, Roch Dunin-Wasowicz and yours truly:
July 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you're at #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social in London, pop into the roundtable on 'Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe' on Wednesday at 4.30 pm - with Karolina Follis, @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Kasia Narkowicz, Roch Dunin-Wasowicz and yours truly:
🇬🇧 London’s calling! First UK visit post-Brexit 👀Where better to talk abt hostile environments than in the country that named it?
🗓️ Wed 23 July, 4.30–6pm
📍 UCL IOE, Room 417
Panel: Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe run by #KarolinaFollis
#ICCEES2025
Come say hi! 👉 www.iccees2025.org
🗓️ Wed 23 July, 4.30–6pm
📍 UCL IOE, Room 417
Panel: Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe run by #KarolinaFollis
#ICCEES2025
Come say hi! 👉 www.iccees2025.org
XI ICCEES World Congress – 21-25 July 2025, UCL London, UK
www.iccees2025.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
🇬🇧 London’s calling! First UK visit post-Brexit 👀Where better to talk abt hostile environments than in the country that named it?
🗓️ Wed 23 July, 4.30–6pm
📍 UCL IOE, Room 417
Panel: Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe run by #KarolinaFollis
#ICCEES2025
Come say hi! 👉 www.iccees2025.org
🗓️ Wed 23 July, 4.30–6pm
📍 UCL IOE, Room 417
Panel: Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe run by #KarolinaFollis
#ICCEES2025
Come say hi! 👉 www.iccees2025.org
Migration folks - this excellent book is now free on kindle as I just learned! And it is excellent companion to all those of you working on migration to rural areas! Spread the words :) @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Our book is currently free on kindle. Please share with migration researchers #ruralmigration #practicetheory again @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social @samscott23.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Migration folks - this excellent book is now free on kindle as I just learned! And it is excellent companion to all those of you working on migration to rural areas! Spread the words :) @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
Everytime we talk abt the hostilities and human rights violations on the PL-BY border it is challlenging to us, but immense gratitude to @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social for making this together and supporting one another ✊
We brought the discussion abt the EU-Belarus border to @associationruta.bsky.social annual conference, where we shared the reflections on hostile environment & whiteness on the border during the ongoing humanitarian crisis and ethnographic walk in the borderland as a research method
June 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Everytime we talk abt the hostilities and human rights violations on the PL-BY border it is challlenging to us, but immense gratitude to @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social for making this together and supporting one another ✊
What an amazing panel we just had at @associationruta.bsky.social annual conference abt unequal citizenship within and outside of Ukraine! We talked abt Ukr Roma experiences as IDP & forced migrants in Poland, with our colleaques, co-workers and co-thinkers, very grateful for all contributions! 💙❤️💚
June 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
What an amazing panel we just had at @associationruta.bsky.social annual conference abt unequal citizenship within and outside of Ukraine! We talked abt Ukr Roma experiences as IDP & forced migrants in Poland, with our colleaques, co-workers and co-thinkers, very grateful for all contributions! 💙❤️💚
Very moved by this great opening panel at annual @associationruta.bsky.social conference. Our colleaque within #rocit project, #TetianaStorozhko talked abt importance of collecting testimonies & documenting Romani experience of war and displacement.
June 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Very moved by this great opening panel at annual @associationruta.bsky.social conference. Our colleaque within #rocit project, #TetianaStorozhko talked abt importance of collecting testimonies & documenting Romani experience of war and displacement.
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We invite you for this online event, which is a cooperation between UNET@ZOiS and KIU: Ekaterina Bataeva, KIU sur place research fellow together with Daria Yashkina, UNET fellow, will talk about the situation of Ukrainian academics and universities under attack in frontline cities.
25 June, 15:00 | Online
How do universities in #Ukraine survive and adapt in cities under attack? This UNET event explores the resilience of higher education in #Kharkiv, highlighting how institutions, staff, and students navigate war-induced disruption and shape the future of academia.
How do universities in #Ukraine survive and adapt in cities under attack? This UNET event explores the resilience of higher education in #Kharkiv, highlighting how institutions, staff, and students navigate war-induced disruption and shape the future of academia.
Academics in Ukraine’s Frontline Cities
UNET Online Event
www.zois-berlin.de
June 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We invite you for this online event, which is a cooperation between UNET@ZOiS and KIU: Ekaterina Bataeva, KIU sur place research fellow together with Daria Yashkina, UNET fellow, will talk about the situation of Ukrainian academics and universities under attack in frontline cities.
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One would think that our universities would be a bit smarter than that, wouldn't you? And yet we thought it to be incredibly smart to give all our data to Microsoft...
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Trump can pull the plug on the internet, and Europe can’t do anything about it
Trump is back — and with him, the risk that the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world.
www.politico.eu
June 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One would think that our universities would be a bit smarter than that, wouldn't you? And yet we thought it to be incredibly smart to give all our data to Microsoft...
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
From a reviewers’ life: It is quite amazing as it happened for the first time - I just reviewed a paper, and… it is good. I cannot think of any ways to improve it, suggest sth, it doesn’t lack methodologically, theoretically, it holds together. What a day! ;) #academicpublishing #reviewing
June 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
From a reviewers’ life: It is quite amazing as it happened for the first time - I just reviewed a paper, and… it is good. I cannot think of any ways to improve it, suggest sth, it doesn’t lack methodologically, theoretically, it holds together. What a day! ;) #academicpublishing #reviewing
On World Refugee Day I am thinking of ppl we met during our fieldwork in PL & UKR - Ukrainian Roma. Their experience of refuge widely differes from that of other refugees from & within Ukraine, here are some reflections by our team from Poland: www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
www.migracje.uw.edu.pl
June 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On World Refugee Day I am thinking of ppl we met during our fieldwork in PL & UKR - Ukrainian Roma. Their experience of refuge widely differes from that of other refugees from & within Ukraine, here are some reflections by our team from Poland: www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...
With my modest contribution in a form of a book review - time to chill and read 📚📖 from a venue located really at the heart of the theme of this SI, how cool is that! #lowersilesia #niederschlesien #dolnyśląsk 💚
🎊 the new issue of Sprawy Narodowościowe has just been published! Texts tackling the question of what happened in regions subjected to forced migration in 🇨🇿🇵🇱🇸🇰 from various cultural angles, with the emphasis on their multifaceted histories of formerly German regions. All in OA, for free, in English.
June 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
With my modest contribution in a form of a book review - time to chill and read 📚📖 from a venue located really at the heart of the theme of this SI, how cool is that! #lowersilesia #niederschlesien #dolnyśląsk 💚
Our paper is finally out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
Trying to put into words what we remember from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is difficult enough - but being critical of what was so quickly dubbed & celebrated as "Polish aid" is even more so.
Trying to put into words what we remember from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is difficult enough - but being critical of what was so quickly dubbed & celebrated as "Polish aid" is even more so.
The claim to have rights, and the right to have claims − transnational solidarity of Roma in the face of the war in Ukraine
Russian full-scale military aggression against Ukraine in 2022 entailed mass departures of people fleeing the war-torn country. The arrival of forced migrants to Poland was met by an unprecedented ...
www.tandfonline.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Our paper is finally out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
Trying to put into words what we remember from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is difficult enough - but being critical of what was so quickly dubbed & celebrated as "Polish aid" is even more so.
Trying to put into words what we remember from the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is difficult enough - but being critical of what was so quickly dubbed & celebrated as "Polish aid" is even more so.
Our first project publication will be soon out and I am too excited not to share the good news! :) also - it will be open access! All co-authors (Monika Szewczyk, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz) from ROCIT (rocit.pl) project run at the @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Our first project publication will be soon out and I am too excited not to share the good news! :) also - it will be open access! All co-authors (Monika Szewczyk, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz) from ROCIT (rocit.pl) project run at the @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social
✨ Throwback to a truly meaningful moment at our ROCIT international seminar in Warsaw. Despite the difficult times, we came together to share inspiring discussions on collective accommodation for Ukrainian refugees and the complex realities of unequal citizenship.
🔗 rocit.pl/our-third-on...
🔗 rocit.pl/our-third-on...
May 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
✨ Throwback to a truly meaningful moment at our ROCIT international seminar in Warsaw. Despite the difficult times, we came together to share inspiring discussions on collective accommodation for Ukrainian refugees and the complex realities of unequal citizenship.
🔗 rocit.pl/our-third-on...
🔗 rocit.pl/our-third-on...
Na wschodniej granicy bez zmian - o tym będziemy konferować w Lublinie już we wrześniu!
Nadchodzi termin zgłoszeń na kolejną konferencję Komitetu Badań nad Migracjami - 13.05. Zapraszamy do zgłoszeń i refleksji dot. kolejnego roku trwania kryzysu humanitarnego na granicy polsko-białoruskiej, szczegóły poniżej 👇 i pod linkiem: www.umcs.pl/pl/aktualnos...
April 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Na wschodniej granicy bez zmian - o tym będziemy konferować w Lublinie już we wrześniu!
Recharging my social batteries after super intense last three days. We met for the third time, 2nd time at the @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social, with the #ROCIT team, the project I co-PI with #MartinFotta, 👉 rocit.pl
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Recharging my social batteries after super intense last three days. We met for the third time, 2nd time at the @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social, with the #ROCIT team, the project I co-PI with #MartinFotta, 👉 rocit.pl
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25. Seminar on the Border is coming to a close. Our discussion unfolded against the backdrop of the suspension of the right to asylum in PL. Research on the border, discursive militarisation & hidden racism, East–West inequalities, and Europeanisation as violence remains more important than ever.
April 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
25. Seminar on the Border is coming to a close. Our discussion unfolded against the backdrop of the suspension of the right to asylum in PL. Research on the border, discursive militarisation & hidden racism, East–West inequalities, and Europeanisation as violence remains more important than ever.
Reposted by Kamila Fiałkowska
To celebrate #InternationalRomaDay #internationalRomaWeek the ROCIT research team at CMR has produced a great video about Roma migrations and mobilisation during the full-scale war in Ukraine, and their research. Take a look!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-Y...
Nierówne obywatelstwo i transnarodowa mobilizacja Romów w obliczu wojny w Ukrainie
YouTube video by MIGRATION RESEARCH
www.youtube.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
To celebrate #InternationalRomaDay #internationalRomaWeek the ROCIT research team at CMR has produced a great video about Roma migrations and mobilisation during the full-scale war in Ukraine, and their research. Take a look!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-Y...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-Y...
Reposted by Kamila Fiałkowska
Here is the new issue of #CMRSPotlight devoted to the @ncn.gov.pl - financed ROCIT project on the displacement of Roma after the full-scale Russian aggression on Ukraine. Just in time for #InternationalRomaDay #internationalRomaWeek
www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/publikacje/t...
www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/publikacje/t...
Three years on – Ukrainian Roma experiences of displacement, transnational lives and resilience | Ośrodek Badań nad Migracjami
www.migracje.uw.edu.pl
April 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Here is the new issue of #CMRSPotlight devoted to the @ncn.gov.pl - financed ROCIT project on the displacement of Roma after the full-scale Russian aggression on Ukraine. Just in time for #InternationalRomaDay #internationalRomaWeek
www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/publikacje/t...
www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/publikacje/t...