Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaCommunist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The September issue is out! Featuring a long-awaited special section on Methodological Challenges and New Approaches to Data Collection and Analysis in the Context of War, Conflict, and Authoritarianism, guest edited by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova and Maxim Alyukov. online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/issue/5... 041
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Our first ERC Starting Grant @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social - so proud of you @radziwinowiczowna.bsky.social! 020
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Our paper has recently been featured on the Polish Social Psychological Society blog: psps.badania.net/en/small-hom...psps.badania.netSmall homeland, greater openness: The role of local identification in attitudes toward migrants | Polish Social Psychological Society 000
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Contexts of Mobility (Un)freedoms - inspiring talk by Kerilyn Schewel on how to incorporate capability to stay with capability to migrate into one framework at the #IMISCOE2026 Annual Conference (@imiscoe.bsky.social) 000
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Today at the #IMISCOE2026 Annual Conference (@imiscoe.bsky.social) I presented our w/ Katarzyna Saczuk & Marcel Lubbers RAISE (@raise-horizon.bsky.social) paper on the relationship between the perception of inequalities and beliefs about structural discrimination based on ethno-racial, religious and 100
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaLorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 27/02/2026How do institutions communicate about #migration? With @jamesrdennison.bsky.social & @mcduarte.bsky.social, we built a database of migration communication campaigns in Europe. We’re expanding it now. Do you know a campaign? Please take this 1-min survey. eui.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 064
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaLorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 18/02/2026How does cinema shape how we think about migration? In my new article I analyse 410 films, documentaries & TV series from 1940–2024 to explain how migration is represented on screen. 🧵 1/3 academic.oup.com/migration/ar... 45416
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 10/12/2025In our new @gpir-sage.bsky.social paper w/ @storunczykruiz.bsky.social & @anetapiekut.bsky.social, we examine national & local identification, as well as their interplay, as determinants of attitudes to international & internal migration. We found that … 1/ doi.org/10.1177/13684302251391155 1124
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The ungated (AM) version of this paper is now available under: www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.net(PDF) Unfulfilled intentions: family stories and narratives on unrealised emigration under emigration restrictionsPDF | The paper sheds light on the character of family stories concerning unrealised emigration experienced under emigration restrictions and their... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o... 020
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 15/11/2025An extremely interesting experimental study on how the mismatch of personal characteristics of immigrants with the ingroup and civic and cultural European identity explain immigration attitudes 030
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 15/11/2025An interesting paper on the role of individual socio-economic status in driving anti-immigrant attitudes adding ethnic group position into the picture. Worth reading! It’s a pity though that the authors have excluded post-communist countries from their analyses! 130
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Do not miss this opportunity to work on an interesting research project @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social (and get to know Bristol and my favourite co-author @artjoms.bsky.social)! 011
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 03/10/2025📣#jobalert #hiring #Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 14.5 mo (fte) @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project: www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #migrationresearch #sociology 055
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaCommunist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 18/09/2025🚨Announcing the CPCS Global Collaborative Research Award. 🚨 The award is unique in recognizing and promoting cross-regional collaboration in published research on the communist or post-communist world. More details are 👇 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/pages/g...online.ucpress.eduGlobal Collaboration Research Award | Communist and Post-Communist Studies | University of California PressGlobal Collaboration Research Award | Communist and Post-Communist Studies | University of California Press Global Collaborative Research Award Description Communist and Post-Communist Studies (CPCS) and the University of California Press value the diversification and platforming of voices and perspectives of scholars from all regions who contribute to, and engage with, international research on the communist and post-communist world. In furthering this goal,... 041
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaNatalia Letki @nletki.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Happy to see this paper with Dawid Walentek, Peter Dinesen and Ulf Liebe out! We use a preregistered experimental design to test the effect of visual media framing on behaviour towards refugees. Summary of the results 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comMeasuring the effect of media framing on behavior towards refugees - Dawid Walentek, Natalia Letki, Peter Thisted Dinesen, Ulf Liebe, 2025Research demonstrates that media framing of immigrants and refugees affects sentiments toward these groups in the receiving societies; however, no evidence on t... 121
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 01/09/2025This will be my new office for the next 3 months - started my research visit to the University of York today! Kudos to @nawapoland.bsky.social for making it possible. Looking forward to collaborating with @grigolus.bsky.social! 130
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaCommunist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The CPCS Editor's Report 2025 is now available for download: drive.google.com/file/d/1qo-S... A short highlight thread: 🔸2024 Impact Factor ↗️ 1.3 🔸2024 Immediacy Index ↗️ 1.1 🔸2024 Scopus CiteScore ↗️ 2.4 (1/9) 152
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 30/07/2025In a new @nationalitiesp.bsky.social paper, I address the question of the distinction between voluntary and involuntary immobility under emigration restrictions. 1/ #migrationresearch #sociology doi.org/10.1017/nps.2025.10088 140
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 25/07/2025RAISE project papers in the making but you can already take a look at our w/ Katarzyna Saczuk report based on the RAISE WP4 survey: raise-horizon.eu/wp-content/u...raise-horizon.eu 200
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 24/07/2025My 2024 paper "Unfulfilled intentions: family stories and narratives on unrealised emigration under emigration restrictions" @scmrjems.bsky.social has just received vol, issue & page numbers and become a 2025 paper -> a short thread summarising the paper: 020
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaKarolina Ćwiek-Rogalska @karolinarogalska.bsky.social · 14/06/2025🎊 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. 151
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Our with @artjoms.bsky.social 2024 paper "Does exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentions" @migrationjrnl.bsky.social has been assigned vol & issue numbers and become a 2025 paper doi.org/10.1093/migr...doi.orgDoes exposure to books foster a taste for spatial mobility? Home library size in childhood and adult migration intentionsAbstract. Does exposure to books in childhood encourage adult migration? We contend that it does—through reading, which provides a simulative experience an 151
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaCentre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Join us for a lecture by Prof. Alexander Kustov @akoustov @UNCCharlotte: "In our own interest: How democracies can make immigration popular". 🗓️May 16, 13:00 CEST 🏦at CMR Warsaw and online Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-our-int... More about Prof. Kustov: alexanderkustov.orgeventbrite.comIn Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration PopularLecture by Prof. Alexander Kustov, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 063
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Termin na zgłaszanie referatów do grup tematycznych na XIX Ogólnopolski Zjazd Socjologiczny został przedłużony do 6 kwietnia - nieustająco zachęcamy do rozważenia naszej grupy (G22)! 000
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaAlexey Bessudnov @alexeyb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The paper on Russian miltitary fatalities has now been published in Demography. Our estimate for 2022-23 is about 60,000 killed. This is the lower bound based on official Russian mortality statistics, but it's probably closer to the true number than much higher estimates from 'intelligence sources' 042
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Został jeszcze tylko niecały tydzień na zgłaszanie referatów do grup tematycznych na XIX Ogólnopolski Zjazd Socjologiczny - zachęcamy do rozważenia naszej grupy (G22): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comRejestracja do grup tematycznych / Registration for thematic groupsZasady udziału we wszystkich typach grup tematycznych: Jeden uczestnik Zjazdu może wystąpić maksymalnie w dwóch rolach: · prowadzącego/prowadzącej obrady grupy/sympozjum/sesję; · wygłaszającego/wygłas... 001
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaEwa Cichocka @ewacichocka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Zapraszamy z @zbrunarska.bsky.social do słania abstraktów do naszej grupy na #ZjazdPTS: Postrzeganie funkcjonowania mniejszości etnicznych/rasowych/religijnych w europejskich społeczeństwach przez przedstawicieli grup większościowych Do zobaczenia:) zjazdpts.bialystok.pl/grupy-tematy...zjazdpts.bialystok.plGrupy tematyczne – XIX Ogólnopolski Zjazd SocjologicznyRozwińPrzełączanie menuPrzewiń na góręPrzewiń na góręRozwiń 042
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Wspólnie z @ewacichocka.bsky.social organizujemy grupę "Postrzeganie funkcjonowania mniejszości etnicznych/rasowych/religijnych w europejskich społeczeństwach przez przedstawicieli grup większościowych" (G22) podczas #ZjazdPTS. Szczegóły pod linkiem: zjazdpts.bialystok.pl/grupy-tematy... Zapraszamy!zjazdpts.bialystok.plGrupy tematyczne – XIX Ogólnopolski Zjazd SocjologicznyRozwińPrzełączanie menuPrzewiń na góręPrzewiń na góręRozwiń 042
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaAgnieszka Radziwinowiczówna @radziwinowiczowna.bsky.social · 24/02/2025JOB ALERT 5 days left to apply for a post-doc to work with me in #UK2deport project at @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social Check the requirements migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... and send your application to konkursy.obm@uw.edu.plmigracje.uw.edu.pl 053
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 20/02/2025📣 @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social has moved to Bluesky - all interested in evidence-based migration research do not forget to give us a follow! 020
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaAgnieszka Radziwinowiczówna @radziwinowiczowna.bsky.social · 28/01/2025🚨I am hiring, please share!🚨 🤩#UK2deport research team is growing at the CMR (Warsaw) I am looking for a post-doc with good qualitative skills and interest in involuntary returns 🗓️Application deadline Feb 28, 2025 If you have any questions, email me Job offer: www.migracje.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u... 022
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaCentral and Eastern European Migration Review @ceemr-journal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Thank 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. 021
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaVolha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉 The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run. 📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf] See thread below: 37435126
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 14/11/2024One week left to apply for our postdoc position at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw! We’re seeking a qualitative scholar proficient in Russian, among other things, to conduct interviews with Russians in AM, GE, KZ, RS & TR. 032
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Less than 2 weeks left to apply for our postdoc position at the Centre of Migration Research! Please share widely in your social networks! 010
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 21/10/2024📣 #jobalert #hiring #Postdoc opportunity for a qualitative scholar for 2y (fte) at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw to work on the political impact of new Russian emigrants on host countries and the RF in the DemEx project. Image by geralt/pixabay #migrationresearch #sociology 151
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaPaul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 27/08/2024Hot off the (virtual) press, it's the CPCS Editor's Report 2024! Jam-packed with journal metrics and other goodies. 001
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaPaul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 24/06/2024Good things are happening at @cpcs.bsky.social Impact factors aren't really a measure of quality, but still it's nice to see hard work paying off - especially for our publisher University of California Press, who took over a flailing journal and entrusted it to our editorial team. 033
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 15/05/2024In a new JEMS paper, drawing on interviews with people whose family members intended to emigrate from communist Poland & Russia but have not fulfilled their plans, I explore family stories on unrealised emigration #migrationresearch #sociology #familysci doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2346619 1/ 230
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaMoritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · 23/04/2024🚨New paper: The Impact of Private Hosting on the Integration of Ukrainian Refugees 🚨 w/ Mathis Herpell, Niklas Harder, Alexandra Orlova, Dominik Hangartner, Jens Hainmueller osf.io/preprints/so... #polisciresearch #econtwitter 1135
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaMigration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 20/04/2024Hi migration scholars! This is the account for Migration Studies. We're led by editor-in-chief @tsourapas.bsky.social, deputy editors @williamlallen.bsky.social and Maria Koinova, and a team of associate editors. academic.oup.com/migration migcitsky polisky econsky sociology anthrosky academicsky 175
Reposted by Zuzanna Brunarskakoenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 11/03/2024Not so natural? Paper by @essobecker.bsky.social et al calls for caution in treating the post-WW-II split and subsequent reunification of Germany as a natural experiment, arguing that the populations hardly qualified as bona fide treatment and control groups: buff.ly/3OXCt2a 22013
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 03/04/2024Can exposure to books influence individual spatial mobility? In our new paper w/ Artjoms Ivlevs, we show that library size in a childhood home is positively related to adult migration intentions. 1/ #migrationresearch #sociology #familysci doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae011 161
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaEilish Hart @eilishhart.bsky.social · 08/03/2024What does decolonizing Russia mean to the peoples Moscow colonized? For The Beet, the one and only Leyla Latypova explores the broad spectrum of Indigenous initiatives that make up Russia’s decolonial movement. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.iomeduza.ioNot Russians’ ‘little brother’ anymore Russia’s decolonial movement banks on interethnic solidarity in its fight against the Kremlin — MeduzaStory by Leyla Latypova for The Beet. Edited by Eilish Hart. 043
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaCommunist and Post-Communist Studies @cpcs.bsky.social · 04/03/2024🚨The March 2024 Issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies is now online!🚨 "Eurasian Continuities: Historical Legacies in the Post-Communist World--Ideologies, Practices, or Social Constructions?" Guest edited by Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/issue/5... 033
Zuzanna Brunarska @zbrunarska.bsky.social · 09/02/2024The AM of my article 'Exposure to Immigration and Sense of Socio-Territorial Belonging: Evidence from Russia' that appeared in Problems of Post-Communism a while ago is now free to read on Researchgate: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 111
Reposted by Zuzanna BrunarskaPaul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 07/02/2024A semi-regular reminder for researchers to consider submitting your manuscripts to @cpcs.bsky.social. CPCS is an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring research on current and historical developments in the communist and post-communist world. AcademicSky Polisky Dictatorsky 1/6 1108