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From Drifting to Anchoring. Capturing the Experience of Ukrainian Migrants in Poland

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dc.abstract.enThe article applies the concept of anchoring, defined as the process of searching for footholds and points of reference which allows individuals to acquire socio-psychological stability and security and function effectively in a new environment, to explore complex, multidimensional and flexible adaptation and settlement processes among migrants from Ukraine in Poland. Based on 40 in-depth interviews and questionnaires with migrants resident in Warsaw and its vicinity, we argue that the traditional catego-ries employed for analysing migrants’ adaptation and settlement such as ‘integration’ or ‘assimilation’ are not always adequate to capture the way of functioning and experience of contemporary Ukrainian migrants. Rather than traditional categories, we propose to apply the concept of anchoring which ena-bles us to capture Ukrainians’ ‘fluid’ migration, drifting lives and complex identities as well as mecha-nisms of settling down in terms of searching for relative stability rather than putting down roots. The paper discusses the ambiguous position of Ukrainian migrants in Poland constructed as neither the strangers nor the same, gives insight into their drifting lives and illuminates ways of coping with tem-porariness and establishing anchors providing migrants with a sense of stability and security. This ap-proach, linking identity, security and incorporation, emphasises, on the one hand, the psychological and emotional aspects of establishing new footholds and, on the other hand, tangible anchors and structural constraints. Its added value lies in the fact that it allows for complexity, simultaneity and changeability of anchoring and the reverse processes of un-anchoring to be included.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorGrzymała-Kazłowska, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorBrzozowska, Anita
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T01:37:07Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T01:37:07Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.accesstimeAT_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number2
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume6
dc.identifier.doi10.17467/CEEMR.2017.04
dc.identifier.issn2300-1682
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/107522
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/vol-6-no-2-2017/articles/drifting-anchoring-capturing-experience-ukrainian-migrants-poland
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationsociology
dc.relation.ispartofCentral and Eastern European Migration Review
dc.relation.pages103-122
dc.rightsCC-BY
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dc.subject.ensocial anchoring Ukrainian migrants integration adaptation settlement
dc.titleFrom Drifting to Anchoring. Capturing the Experience of Ukrainian Migrants in Poland
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication