Research Team – V4 Brexit

Helena Patzer

is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology,
University of Warsaw. Her research interests include transnational migration, long-distance care,
the critical anthropology of development, and urban studies. Her PhD, defended at the University
of Warsaw, was a study of Filipino middle-class professionals in the US and their involvement in
development projects in the home country (Long-distance Care. The Practice of Sustaining
Transnational Ties by Filipino Immigrants in Boston). She was a recipient of a Kościuszko scholarship
at Harvard University, she held a post-doctoral position at the Czech Academy of Sciences in
Prague, and was an Erasmus-Mundus post-doctoral fellow at Ateneo de Manila University. She is
the author of three edited volumes, among them Pretextual Ethnographies. Challenging the
Phenomenological Level of Anthropological Knowledge-Making (2018). She also directed “Money
Tree”, an ethnographic film based on her research on migrant families.

Karina Hoření

A researcher in the project “SIRIUS: Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets” (Horizon 2020). She holds M.A. in sociology and history from Masaryk University, Brno and during her studies she obtained scholarships from University of Salford, University of Bergen and University of Vienna. She worked as a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes/Prague and was main editor of online educational portal SocialismRealised. She collaborated on number of projects about migration and history such as Leperiben – collecting oral histories of Czechoslovak Roma. She teaches courses and lectures about Czech social and cultural history and and her interests are qualitative research, ethnic relations in the Czech republic and cross-country skiing.

Ágnes Erőss

is a research fellow at the Geographical Institute Research Centre for
Astronomy and Earth Sciences, ELKH, Budapest, Hungary. She studied History and Geography in the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and earned her PhD in Geography.
Her research interests cover the spatial representation of memory and the politics of commemoration, with special regard to the symbolic politics and space appropriation strategies in contested (urban) settings.

She has been studying the social and political dimensions of the transnational migration of ethnic Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia, Western Ukraine since 2016.

Her research focuses on the effects of kin-state politics, ethnicity and the ’left behind’/immobile local communities. She was a post-doctoral visiting fellow in the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw (2018-2019), and a guest lecturer at the University of Lleida (Spain, 2018) and the University of Opole (Poland,
2019, 2020).

Jana Pecníková

Jana Pecníková is an assistant professor at Matej Bel University, Faculty of Arts in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. She works at the Department of European Cultural Studies as a teacher of academic subjects focused on cultural studies and European active citizenship. In her research she deals with cultural identity & heritage, interculturality and cultural-social forms of active citizenship. migration. She publishes scientific papers regularly in Slovakia as well as abroad. She participates in many international projects and conferences in cooperation with e.g. Vienna University, Austria; University of Waterloo, Canada and Université Paris 13, France. She often attends educational and research activities abroad (e.g. France, Poland).

Web-page: https://www.ff.umb.sk/jpecnikova/

Katalin Kovály

is a junior research fellow at the Geographical Institute Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, ELKH, Budapest, Hungary. She graduated as a Geographer at the Uzhhorod National University, (Ukraine) in 2011.

She defended her PhD at the Eötvös
Loránd University, Budapest in 2020. She was a visiting fellow in the Institute of Geography, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (research topic: Foreign direct investments in different regions of Ukraine) and Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (research topic: Peculiarities of the Ukrainian labour migration to the Czech Republic and its impact on the economy of Ukraine and also social capital among Ukrainian migrant entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic).

Her current research interests include the
ethnic and economic geography of Ukraine and Transcarpathia. She also investigates the Ukrainian – Hungarian border region.

Wojciech Bedyński

Cultural historian and anthropologist, researcher at the Center for Migration Research, University of Warsaw (from June 2016). A graduate of the University of Warsaw and University of Paris-IV (Sorbonne), former pensionnaire étranger at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (d’Ulm).

In 2011 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Rzeszów on the basis of a dissertation under the title Magh nEo on Sachsan. An Anglo-Saxon monastery in Ireland which is a monograph of the monastery of Mayo Abbey, present-day County Mayo, from its founding in the second half of the 7th century until the end of the Viking Age (published as a book in Krakow, 2014). He lectured, among others at the University of Warsaw, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Banská Bystrica, the University Rzeszowski and at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities. Author of several scientific articles from the scope of the cultural landscape, the history of the British Isles and the history of Polish-Jewish relations; and also editor of two books on cultural landscape.

His scientific interests include: the history of Celtic peoples and countries, the history of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, Polish-Jewish relations, history of Masuria, Warmia and East Prussia, landscape theory, history of migration. He is currently working on a monograph describing social mobility and territorial territory of the inhabitants of Giżycko on the basis of ethnographic research of graduates of all secondary schools from 1976 to 2006. In addition to scientific activities, it is founder and president of the Foundation for Landscape Protection and Promotion of Regions “NUMINOSUM”, under the which he implemented numerous social and cultural projects, incl. Visegrad Landscape Map, Academy Itinerant Musicians, Numinosum Festival (8 editions). Since 2012, he has been running Klub Numinosum (currently Chata Numinosum in Warsaw’s Jazdów) – a grassroots community center associated with the environment of lovers of traditional culture. In his spare time, he travels, plays guitar and tin whistle, walks in the mountains.

Petra Strnádová

Petra Strnádová is an assistant professor at Matej Bel University, Faculty of Economics in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. She works at the Department of Language Communication in Business. Her research activities include the discourse analysis, English language teaching for specific purposes, intercomperehension and migration / cultural studies. She participated in scientific and educational projects such sa Projects and Innovative Teaching Methods at Universities.

Web-page: https://www.ef.umb.sk/index.asp?zid=519&uid=65

Karel Čada

A researcher in the in the project “SIRIUS: Skills and Integration of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Applicants in European Labour Markets” (Horizon 2020). He was the principal investigator of the project “Dynamics of Poverty and Social Exclusion in the Czech Republic” funded by the Czech Science Foundation and the leader of the Czech team in the project “Countering Islamophobia Through the Development of Best Practice in the use of Counter-Narratives in EU Member States” (JUST/2015/ACTIONGRANTS). With Dr Jakub Grygar, he received the ERSTE Foundation Fellowship for the project on Vietnamese cuisine and socio-material proximities in the making of cosmopolitan city (2015-2016). He has published in the area of social exclusion, poverty, education inequalities, non-governmental organisations and social and health policies.

Uniwersity of Warsaw, Centre of Migration Research

The Centre of Migration Research (CMR) is an inter-faculty unit of the University of Warsaw, an interdisciplinary research center specializing in the study of migration processes in Poland and Europe.

With 59 researchers and staff, the CMR is the largest migration-oriented academic institution in East Central Europe. As such it was given the highest possible mark for academic quality in Poland (A+ or leading level). Scientific and research activities have been the main goal since the beginning of the Centre’s existence. CMR carries out research projects of various scale and scope, financed from domestic and foreign sources.

The main areas of interest of the Centre are: economics of migration integration and ethnic relations, migration policies, theories and methods in migration studies, determinants of migration decisions on different analytical levels, causes and consequences of emigration from Poland, inflow and operation of foreigners on the Polish labour market, migration policy in Poland and the UE, social mobility of migrants.