Anna Safuta
@widerstandrausch.bsky.social
Feminist political sociologist, migrant researcher and researcher of migration. Nihil de nobis, sine nobis. Lecturer in sociology at @uccresearch.bsky.social
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Anna Safuta
@widerstandrausch.bsky.social
· May 20
Join our online *book launch* to explore migration, race & Central & Eastern Europe 😀
🗓️ Tuesday, 27 May
🕙 1-3pm UK time
📍 Online via Zoom: mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97334902628
Meet the editors/authors & celebrate the journey from page to published 🤗
🗓️ Tuesday, 27 May
🕙 1-3pm UK time
📍 Online via Zoom: mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97334902628
Meet the editors/authors & celebrate the journey from page to published 🤗
One week to go before the launch of "Migration and Race: CEE perspectives" edited by Kasia Narkowicz, annagawlewicz.bsky.social & Konrad Pędziwiatr, in which I explore how CEE domestic workers navigate their privileged yet precarious position amidst colonial legacies of labour in Belgium & Germany
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💥Viktor Orbán’s media doxxed 200,000 opposition supporters by publishing stolen personal data, including names & addresses – unprecedented in Hungarian politics. Recovering from this, opposition leader Péter Magyar held a rally in Győr, saying they are the majority — and they’re not afraid of Orbán.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
💥Viktor Orbán’s media doxxed 200,000 opposition supporters by publishing stolen personal data, including names & addresses – unprecedented in Hungarian politics. Recovering from this, opposition leader Péter Magyar held a rally in Győr, saying they are the majority — and they’re not afraid of Orbán.
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🇵🇱🇮🇪 See, this is what happens when you ask Poles "how are you?" a few times too many.
Care worker who was told by manager Irish people were ‘nicer’ than Polish is awarded €1,800
Care worker who was told by manager Irish people were ‘nicer’ than Polish is awarded €1,800
Workplace tribunal upholds discrimination claim against Co Kildare nursing home
www.irishtimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🇵🇱🇮🇪 See, this is what happens when you ask Poles "how are you?" a few times too many.
My productivity has never been as high as it has been since they began streaming the International Chopin Competition live from Warsaw. And I even do not like Chopin that much www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eR...
The 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (evening session), 7.10.2025
YouTube video by Chopin Institute
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My productivity has never been as high as it has been since they began streaming the International Chopin Competition live from Warsaw. And I even do not like Chopin that much www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4eR...
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📣 Workshop: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives
25–26 Sept 2025
Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin.
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
25–26 Sept 2025
Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin.
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
September 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📣 Workshop: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives
25–26 Sept 2025
Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin.
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
25–26 Sept 2025
Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin.
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...
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We shouldn't understand the gig economy as merely the product of technological disruption.
It is deeply entangled with the welfare institutions — and the broader transformation of work, security, and social protection.
It is deeply entangled with the welfare institutions — and the broader transformation of work, security, and social protection.
August 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We shouldn't understand the gig economy as merely the product of technological disruption.
It is deeply entangled with the welfare institutions — and the broader transformation of work, security, and social protection.
It is deeply entangled with the welfare institutions — and the broader transformation of work, security, and social protection.
Are you also moving countries while preparing next semester teaching, writing funding applications and papers? Asking for a friend...
August 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Are you also moving countries while preparing next semester teaching, writing funding applications and papers? Asking for a friend...
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#ERSNew 🐣🔓“Don’t complain. Adapt. Be successful.” How do highly educated, middle-class Germans with a migration background respond to racism? Interviewees emphasise having the 'upper hand', the importance of hard work & education. Article @piwoni.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2529413
August 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#ERSNew 🐣🔓“Don’t complain. Adapt. Be successful.” How do highly educated, middle-class Germans with a migration background respond to racism? Interviewees emphasise having the 'upper hand', the importance of hard work & education. Article @piwoni.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2529413
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Remember when people said Western democracy failed in the East because the Eastern Europe was "so different"? Well it's been failing in the West too—because the crisis of liberal capitalism is global. Glad @ambpressman.bsky.social avoids that tired East-West trope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Remember when people said Western democracy failed in the East because the Eastern Europe was "so different"? Well it's been failing in the West too—because the crisis of liberal capitalism is global. Glad @ambpressman.bsky.social avoids that tired East-West trope.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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It was so good to have you with us in Ukraine at our conference with @associationruta.bsky.social on imagination, new visions and connections and close the event with the bang that was our panel on dissent, with a transregional critique of leftist campism, selective anti-imperialism and solidarity
June 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It was so good to have you with us in Ukraine at our conference with @associationruta.bsky.social on imagination, new visions and connections and close the event with the bang that was our panel on dissent, with a transregional critique of leftist campism, selective anti-imperialism and solidarity
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#ERSNew 🐣🔓 New research on racism in #Germany shows that antiracist action can coexist with racism denial—potentially reinforcing racism. Article by Tae Jun Kim & Elias Steinhilper: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2508392
June 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
#ERSNew 🐣🔓 New research on racism in #Germany shows that antiracist action can coexist with racism denial—potentially reinforcing racism. Article by Tae Jun Kim & Elias Steinhilper: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2508392
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I understand the urge but... immigrants are not only valuable because of contributions to the economy.
This is damaging coz:
1. Contributes to commodification of immigrants
2. Makes migrants disposable & deportable when labour is no longer needed (esp periods of high unemployment & austerity)
This is damaging coz:
1. Contributes to commodification of immigrants
2. Makes migrants disposable & deportable when labour is no longer needed (esp periods of high unemployment & austerity)
All these Trumpers are in for a hurting real bad once they feel how important immigrants are to the economy.
It's going to be immense pain. And you know what? The country did it to itself—the self-destructive power of white supremacy.
It's going to be immense pain. And you know what? The country did it to itself—the self-destructive power of white supremacy.
June 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I understand the urge but... immigrants are not only valuable because of contributions to the economy.
This is damaging coz:
1. Contributes to commodification of immigrants
2. Makes migrants disposable & deportable when labour is no longer needed (esp periods of high unemployment & austerity)
This is damaging coz:
1. Contributes to commodification of immigrants
2. Makes migrants disposable & deportable when labour is no longer needed (esp periods of high unemployment & austerity)
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Kindly reminder, when you look at the results of the election and grunt "wtf, Poland" do have in the back of your head that the difference in votes was 369,591 (1,78%), the smallest difference in the presidential election post-1989.
Divided we are, yes. But give some of us a break, we tried.
Divided we are, yes. But give some of us a break, we tried.
June 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Kindly reminder, when you look at the results of the election and grunt "wtf, Poland" do have in the back of your head that the difference in votes was 369,591 (1,78%), the smallest difference in the presidential election post-1989.
Divided we are, yes. But give some of us a break, we tried.
Divided we are, yes. But give some of us a break, we tried.
One week to go before the launch of "Migration and Race: CEE perspectives" edited by Kasia Narkowicz, annagawlewicz.bsky.social & Konrad Pędziwiatr, in which I explore how CEE domestic workers navigate their privileged yet precarious position amidst colonial legacies of labour in Belgium & Germany
Join our online *book launch* to explore migration, race & Central & Eastern Europe 😀
🗓️ Tuesday, 27 May
🕙 1-3pm UK time
📍 Online via Zoom: mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97334902628
Meet the editors/authors & celebrate the journey from page to published 🤗
🗓️ Tuesday, 27 May
🕙 1-3pm UK time
📍 Online via Zoom: mdx-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97334902628
Meet the editors/authors & celebrate the journey from page to published 🤗
May 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
One week to go before the launch of "Migration and Race: CEE perspectives" edited by Kasia Narkowicz, annagawlewicz.bsky.social & Konrad Pędziwiatr, in which I explore how CEE domestic workers navigate their privileged yet precarious position amidst colonial legacies of labour in Belgium & Germany
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My partner Radost has created fantastic visualizations of yesterday's Polish presidential election results — mapped by both population (~half of Poles live in cities) and territory.
Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...
Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...
May 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My partner Radost has created fantastic visualizations of yesterday's Polish presidential election results — mapped by both population (~half of Poles live in cities) and territory.
Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...
Explore all the maps here: radostw.github.io/election_202...
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We are founding a new interdisciplinary Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS) at the University of Zurich. Please apply to our Inaugural Conference "Eastern Europe's Invisibilities: Politics, Epistmics, Arts" at the University of Zurich, May 6-8, 2026.
May 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We are founding a new interdisciplinary Institute for Slavic and Eastern European Studies (ISOS) at the University of Zurich. Please apply to our Inaugural Conference "Eastern Europe's Invisibilities: Politics, Epistmics, Arts" at the University of Zurich, May 6-8, 2026.
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Palestinian Scholarship
www.gold.ac.uk
April 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
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Linking public service deprivation to immigration rather than to cuts & administrative burdens is a POLITICAL CHOICE
My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽
🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV
🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ
Yet another form of far right normalization
My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽
🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV
🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ
Yet another form of far right normalization
April 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Linking public service deprivation to immigration rather than to cuts & administrative burdens is a POLITICAL CHOICE
My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽
🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV
🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ
Yet another form of far right normalization
My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽
🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV
🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ
Yet another form of far right normalization
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Republikaner: Kinder(nacht)arbeit in Floridas Niedriglohnsektoren erlauben, wenn weniger undokumentierte Arbeiter:innen da sind wegen Abschiebepolitik. Super Idee.
March 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Republikaner: Kinder(nacht)arbeit in Floridas Niedriglohnsektoren erlauben, wenn weniger undokumentierte Arbeiter:innen da sind wegen Abschiebepolitik. Super Idee.
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Oh noes, Americans get to drink bourbon and Zinfandel while the beleaguered Europeans will be forced back on armagnac and Sancerre, the lights are going out all over Europe.
March 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Oh noes, Americans get to drink bourbon and Zinfandel while the beleaguered Europeans will be forced back on armagnac and Sancerre, the lights are going out all over Europe.
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Poland’s bill suspending the right to asylum has just passed the Senate (the upper chamber of the Parliament) without amendments. Now it’s only a matter of days before the President signs it into law. I break down why this is unprecedented for the EU in @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
Poland's ban on asylum — a new low
On 21 February, Polish MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of a mechanism for the suspension of the right to submit asylum applications. The measure is quite clearly at odds with the Polish constitutio...
euobserver.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Poland’s bill suspending the right to asylum has just passed the Senate (the upper chamber of the Parliament) without amendments. Now it’s only a matter of days before the President signs it into law. I break down why this is unprecedented for the EU in @euobserver.com
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
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The mayor of a Polish town on the German border has announced he will complain to the EU about Germany’s reintroduction of border checks, which he says effectively amount to the suspension of the Schengen Agreement and are causing significant disruption.
Polish mayor to complain to EU over German border checks
notesfrompoland.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The mayor of a Polish town on the German border has announced he will complain to the EU about Germany’s reintroduction of border checks, which he says effectively amount to the suspension of the Schengen Agreement and are causing significant disruption.
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We truly are stronger together. One of the best ways of persisting in these difficult times of imperial threats, genocidal violence and far right alliances, is via the building of resisting, supportive and transregional communities. If you’re looking for one, join us in @associationruta.bsky.social
You are always sure to meet friends when you go to a demonstration for Ukraine, for freedom and democracy in Europe. Yesterday with @terezahendl.bsky.social and Maksym Butkevych. I spoke between these two, what an honour!
March 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We truly are stronger together. One of the best ways of persisting in these difficult times of imperial threats, genocidal violence and far right alliances, is via the building of resisting, supportive and transregional communities. If you’re looking for one, join us in @associationruta.bsky.social
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Was soll dieser Titel, @Zeit.de ? Warum wird so getan, als ginge es um „Hilfe für die 🇺🇦“? Es geht um uns ffs. Es geht darum, was wir für die Ukraine tun müssen, damit sie uns weiter Zeit erkauft. Teuer erkauft. @efdavies.bsky.social @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social @ostausschuss.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Was soll dieser Titel, @Zeit.de ? Warum wird so getan, als ginge es um „Hilfe für die 🇺🇦“? Es geht um uns ffs. Es geht darum, was wir für die Ukraine tun müssen, damit sie uns weiter Zeit erkauft. Teuer erkauft. @efdavies.bsky.social @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social @ostausschuss.bsky.social
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The things nobodies know…
How epistemic injustice in research kills:
This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?"
"The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.
This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?"
"The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.
March 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The things nobodies know…
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🔍New Collaborative Online Workshop🔍
"The silence around “race” in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market"
Join us for a workshop hosted by WEI and IMISCOE
📅Friday 28th March
🕐1-3pm GMT | 2-4pm CET
🎟️https://bit.ly/4gWW5Pa
"The silence around “race” in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market"
Join us for a workshop hosted by WEI and IMISCOE
📅Friday 28th March
🕐1-3pm GMT | 2-4pm CET
🎟️https://bit.ly/4gWW5Pa
February 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🔍New Collaborative Online Workshop🔍
"The silence around “race” in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market"
Join us for a workshop hosted by WEI and IMISCOE
📅Friday 28th March
🕐1-3pm GMT | 2-4pm CET
🎟️https://bit.ly/4gWW5Pa
"The silence around “race” in the discourse of equality and inclusion in the labour market"
Join us for a workshop hosted by WEI and IMISCOE
📅Friday 28th March
🕐1-3pm GMT | 2-4pm CET
🎟️https://bit.ly/4gWW5Pa