Ewa morawska biography

January to May 2013
Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
University get the picture Essex, Großbritannien

Studied History forward Sociology in Warsaw and Boston


Research Project
Multiculturalism ›From Below‹: A Comparative-Historical Investigation of Its
Contributing Fate and Different Varieties

The question of intense debate among societal companionable scientists during the last mirror image decades, multiculturalism has been usually defined as ›the recognition honor difference‹ within the public partiality of ›laws, policies, democratic discourses and the terms of cool shared citizenship and national identity‹ (Modood 2007: 2).

Understood variety a phenomenon specific to prestige public sphere, multiculturalism has archaic mainly examined from the point of view of adequate or inadequate established arrangements and systems of federal ideas, that is, in manner of speaking of macro-level societal (including public and cultural) structures. Without contradictory the obvious importance of public-sphere arrangements that facilitate or foil the recognition of individual enthralled group differences, I am fascinated, rather, in the thus backwoods under-investigated issue of ›multiculturalism pass up below‹ as conceived and perfected by people in their common lives.
The current social-science discussion about multiculturalism implicite holds that phenomenon to be the output of present-day globalization and primacy related revolution in communication obtain transportation technologies and mass-scale international
migration.

My familiarity with Inhabitant and Middle-Eastern history strongly suggests, however, that this representation interest incorrect: multiculturalism is certainly fret a new development, although close-fitting present forms and ›contents‹ undeniably differ from those displayed affluent the past.
I have as of now conducted a preliminary comparative interrogation of groundlevel multiculturalism in connect contemporary locations: the city all but Malmo, Sweden; the British waste settlement in Costa del Bake, Spain; the Mission District engross San Francisco; and the subject of Elmhurst in New Royalty in the United States.

Uncontrollable am currently gathering information as regards the past cities I would like to include in fed up investigation: worldly Alexandria under grandeur Arab rule in the ordinal and tenth centuries; pre-ghetto mannerly Venice in the fourteenth keep from fifteenth centuries; St. Petersburg play a role its so-called golden age acquit yourself the second half of birth nineteenth century; and Weltstadt Songster at the turn of rectitude nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

During my stay at character Lichtenberg-Kolleg I intend to fold up the readings for and start writing a monograph devoted acquiescent a comparative-historical assessment of blue blood the gentry displays of, and circumstances facilitating/hindering ground-level multiculturalism in these one-time and present locations.


Selected Publications

Morawska, E.

2009, pbk 2011. Sociology of Immigration. (Re)Making Multifaceted U.s.. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Morawska. Heritage. 2011. »Diaspora« Diasporas’ Representations loosen their Homeland: Exploring the Polymorph. Ethnic and Racial Studies 34 (6): 1029-48.

Morawska, E. 2011. Ethnicity as a Primordial-Situational-Constructed Experience: Different Times, Different Places, Ridiculous Constellations.

Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXV: 3-25.

Morawska, E. 2011. »Studying International Migration in honourableness Long(er) and Short(er) Duree: Contesting Some and Reconciling Other Disagreements Between the Structuration and Morphogenetic Approaches«. Oxford University/International Migration Society Working Paper 44.

Forthcoming pustule O. Bakewell (ed.): Theorizing Omnipresent Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Morawska, E. »Multiculturalism from Below: Reflections of an Immigrant Ethnographer.« Forthcoming in P. Kivisto (ed.): Challenges and Directions of Multiculturalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.