Ignacy Jóźwiak
Ignacy Jóźwiak is an associated researcher at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw. He holds BA and MA in ethnology from the University of Warsaw and PhD in sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Ignacy has expertise in various aspects of migration from Ukraine. He is interested in the phenomena of transnationality, translocality and migrants’ position in the destination countries’ labour markets. Cultural diversity has long been an important, even if not decisive, context of his fieldwork in the local communities in the Transcarpathia region of Ukraine.
Between 2019 and 2023 Ignacy participated in the Transnational lives of Polish Roma – Migration, family and ethnic boundary making in changing European Union research project. In 2022 he was involved in activities aimed at improving the situation of Ukrainian Roma forced migrants in Poland (he cooperated with the European Roma Institute of Art and Culture, Towards the Dialogue Foundation and informal, ad hoc groups).
Relevant publications:
- Ignacy Jóźwiak, Aqui éa Ucrânia! Ukraine and the global community of the oppressed
- Kamila Fiałkowska, Michał P. Garapich, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Sonia Styrkacz, Monika Szewczyk, Anti-paćiw v gádžovské akademii, Ficowského stíny – a co s nimi? Cvičení v reciproční etnografii a dekolonizaci polské romistiky
- Kamil Matuszczyk, Kseniya Homel, Kamila Kowalska, Ignacy Jóźwiak, Maciej Tygielski, Ukrainian Refugees in Poland: Identity and Experiences
- Monika Szewczyk, Elżbieta Mirga-Wójtowicz, Ignacy Jóźwiak, The Internet and Transnational Polish Roma Families in a Time of Pandemic
- Ignacy Jóźwiak, Navigating the opportunities and constraints. Migration as a local response to non-local political developments