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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the last paper in the special section, Ivanka Kyliushyk, Dominika Winogrodzka and Emil Chról demonstrate that Ukrainian refugee women experience the vicious circle of liminality shaped by disrupted lives, fractured identities and belonging tensions. Link: bit.ly/3VVlovQ

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The next paper in this special section, written by Wilsch, Hlinčíková, Tužinská, and Štefková, argues that asymmetry and unintelligibility in institutional meaning-making obscure refugees' lived knowledge and needs, deepening vulnerability. Link: bit.ly/4cJookJ

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In the first paper in our special section, Katarzyna Krakowska and Kamil Łuczaj demonstrate how organisational chaos and conflicting institutional logics can erode trust and enable abuse. Link: bit.ly/4hyTEGk

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In the editorial for the special section of the new CEEMR issue, Lucie Macková, Luděk Jirka, Mateusz Kamionka, and Monika Nowicka aim to move beyond viewing Ukrainian refugees solely through the lens of forced displacement. Link: bit.ly/4gHLryS

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@dominikapsz.bsky.social, Emilia Szyszkowska, Sara Bojarczuk, Kamil Matuszczyk and @maciekduszczyk.bsky.social argue that in the short term, the Polish healthcare system remained largely resilient, despite incorporating +1 million new patients from Ukraine. Link: bit.ly/4iBJ3uI

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Van Haaften, Sethi & Williams-Habibi find that European transnational carers’ experiences are mediated by cultural, gendered and occupational factors, as well as cross-border demands. Despite some employer flexibility, limited policy awareness requires carers to self-advocate. Link: bit.ly/4xI7Bqs

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Integration is often described as a shared responsibility. Kyliushyk, Winogrodzka, Trąbka, Blachnicka-Ciacek and Pietrusińska show how it increasingly becomes an individual responsibility borne by migrants themselves – a phenomenon they refer to as self-responsibilisation. Link: bit.ly/4wsV0X3

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Kováčová, Mýtna Kureková & Studenás' study illustrates that the divide in the literature between sending and receiving countries is outdated – supposed ‘sending’ countries like Slovakia are receiving substantial numbers of posted workers and posting in different ways than before.Link: bit.ly/4xcgNDA

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In her new article, based on in-depth qualitative interviews, Tamar Khoshtaria examines how migration experiences have influenced and potentially reshaped the values and beliefs of young Georgians. Link: bit.ly/4wufNtb @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Dóra Gábriel, Krisztina Németh and Monika Váradi present how German migrants over 50 explain their decisions to relocate to Hungary and demonstrate the complex and changing nexus of economic, lifestyle-oriented, political and ideological motivations shaping their returns. Link: bit.ly/4w1rpU9

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Erik Snel and Godfried Engbersen revisit the concept of liquid migration, showing that East-West migration can lead to three different patterns: permanent or long-term settlement; flexible lifestyles and careers (‘temporariness by choice’) or being ‘trapped in liquid migration’.Link: bit.ly/45prdn7

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Out now! Our new issue with articles on various topics, i.a. liquid migration, young migrants, gender and a special section dedicated to the reflexivity of migration trends in research on Ukrainian refugees: ceemr.uw.edu.pl/issues/vol-1... @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Keizer and Sasunkevich show that structural factors, social status, the degree of integration, and the sense of (non)belonging are crucial in understanding how migrants navigate differences in gender values and norms between home and host societies. Link: bit.ly/4tigfct

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

In her newly published paper, Agnieszka Kosiorowska-Le Rall argues that Polish migrants in France negotiate their identity through embracing or distancing themselves from various discourses on race, sexuality and religion. Link: bit.ly/4mK6Ubx @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

@dorijano.bsky.social argues that Albanian 'irregular' migration to the UK should not be viewed solely as a criminal act. Rather, it emerges from governance-produced statuses and is shaped by sociocultural practices. Link: bit.ly/4dXTIxB @akazlowska.bsky.social @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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.

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Check out our new issue with 9 articles on such topics as transnationalism, Ukrainian refugees, and acculturation. As always #openaccess: https//ceemr.uw.ed...

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We remind you of our previous papers on Ukrainians displaced after 2022. Oleksii Pozniak from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine argued in 2023 to improve the situation of foreigners remaining in UA or planning to return there after the end of the war (link in a comment)

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New: Aneta Skorupa-Wulczyńska addresses the high dropout rate of Ukrainian minors under TP in Poland and argues that states’ failure to efficiently implement language policy in schools strongly contributes to the social disintegration of young migrants (link in a comment). @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New: Aigerim Yerken & Lan Anh Nguyen Luu from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University described the ‘cultural encapsulation’ phenomenon among Kazakhstani students in Hungary who started to value their own cultural identity abroad more than they did in Kazakhstan: bit.ly/41bvxn5

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Three years after the full-scale Russian invasion, we stand with #Ukraine and attempt to provide both knowledge about the displacement induced by the war and give voice to Ukrainian scholars. Check out our special section devoted to this topic: ceemr.uw.edu.pl/issues/vol-1...

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

In 2016, Mike Haynes & Aleksandra Galasińska from the University of Wolverhampton, drawing on a qualitative analysis of selected comments from the gazeta.pl website, argued that workplace was key in the transmission of social remittances by Poles in the #UK: bit.ly/3WUEDUh

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Reminder for those researching histories and current dynamics of migration and race-making in the East of Europe? We invite critical reflections on racialisation and the intersections of migration processes with colonial/imperial histories and their afterlives. More: bit.ly/3NG8Ime

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Central and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Thank you for being with us in 2024! We keep working on more novel and critical research on migration from, to, and within Central and Eastern Europe.

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