Prof. Dr. Izabela Grabowska is Full Professor of Social Sciences; sociologist and economist; from the 1st of September 2021 a Professor at Kozminski University, leads CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility; 2014-2021 a Professor at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (SWPS University; worked there since 2005); 2016-2021 elected Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School (300 PhD students, 4 disciplines, 4 doctoral paths) of SWPS University; leader of Mobility Research Group with an onward activity; established and headed Youth Research Center of SWPS University (2015-2019); 2002-2019 Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research; since 2020 member of Scientific Board of Center of Migration Research at university of Warsaw; 2008-2019 member of IMISCOE Executive Board and Board of Directors; on behalf of CMR; former national expert of the European Commission in ESCO (Classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations) and European Mobility Partnership; publishes in highly impact factor journals, e.g.: Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Youth Studies, International Migration; co-author of the research monograph Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital: Insights from Central Europe and Mexico (with Jastrzebowska, Routledge 2022); author of Movers and Stayers: Migration, Mobility and Skills (Lang 2016), co-author of research monograph: The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change (with White, Kaczmarczyk and Slany, UCL Press 2018) and Migrants as Agents of Change (with Garapich, Jazwinska and Radziwinowiczowna, Palgrave Macmillan 2017); co-editor of Mobility in Transition. Migration Patterns After EU Enlargement (Amsterdam University Press 2013). She has led research projects on: migrants’ careers, social remittances, peer-groups & migration, life courses of young migrants & Brexit (in progress till 2021), migrant liquid integration (H2020 MIMY, in progress). She is active in building international research consortia in EU Framework Programs and bilateral schemes
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1080 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7957-4901 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/Izabela Grabowska |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Izabela_Grabowska |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Kozminski University, Central Europe
University, Warsaw, Poland
Director of CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility -
Kozminski University
University, Warsaw, Poland
Professor -
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
University, Warsaw, Poland
Director, Professor -
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
University, Warsaw, Poland
Professor, Head of Youth Research Center -
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Other, Berlin, Germany
ERC Post-doctoral Researcher -
University of Warsaw
University, Warsaw, Poland
5 EU FP Post-doctoral Researcher
Research
Return migration and embedding: through the lens of Brexit as an unsettling event
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Louise Ryan |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Migrants vs. stayers in the pandemic – A sentiment analysis of Twitter content
| Authors | Olga Czeranowska, Karol Chlasta, Piotr Miłkowski, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Telematics and Informatics Reports |
Wstęp
| Authors | Katarzyna Andrejuk, Izabela Grabowska, Marta Olcoń-Kubicka, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | ZMIANA SPOŁECZNA, PANDEMIA, KRYZYS Konteksty empiryczne i teoretyczne | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
(Dis)ordered social sequences of mobile young adults: spatial, social and return mobilities
| Authors | Dominika Winogrodzka, Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The 2004 EU Enlargement as an Outcome of Public Policies: The Impact of Intra-EU Mobility on Central and Eastern European Sending Countries
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Social Policy and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The impact of migration on human capacities of two generations of Poles: the interplay of theindividualand thesocialin human capital approaches
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Agata Jastrzebowska |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Social Remittances and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Embedding Migration in the Study of Society
| Authors | Anne White, Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2019 |
| Citations (WoS) | 11 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Impact of Migration on Poland
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social Skills, Workplaces and Social Remittances: A Case of Post-Accession Migrants
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Work, Employment and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Transition from Education to Employment Abroad: The Experiences of Young People from Poland
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Europe-Asia Studies |
Social remittances and intra-EU mobility: non-financial transfers between U.K. and Poland
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Michal P. Garapich |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Movers and Stayers: Social Mobility, Migration and Skills
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social Remittances and the Impact of Temporary Migration on an EU Sending Country: The Case of Poland
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Godfried Engbersen |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Central and Eastern European Migration Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Labour Market Behaviours of Back‐and‐Forth Migrants From Poland
| Authors | Agnieszka Fihel, Izabela Grabowska‐Lusinska |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
On the Differential Attachments of Migrants from Central and Eastern Europe: A Typology of Labour Migration
| Authors | Godfried Engbersen, Arjen Leerkes, Jack Burgers, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 56 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Changes in the International Mobility of Labour: Job Migration of Polish Nationals to Ireland
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Irish Journal of Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Resilience Embedded in Psychological Capital of Ukrainian Refugees in Poland
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Agata Jastrzebowska, Ivanna Kyliushyk, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | MIGRATION LETTERS | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Participant Recruitment Challenges in Researching Peer Groups and Migration Retrospectively
| Authors | Natalia Juchniewicz, Paula Pustułka, Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrants as Agents of Change
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Społeczno‑ekonomiczne efekty migracji międzynarodowych Polaków: kariery zawodowe i kapitał ludzki
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Studia Biura Analiz Sejmowych | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Agata Jastrzebowska |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mapping Social Remittances and ‘Segmented Development’ in Central and Eastern Europe
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Michał P. Garapich |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Central and Eastern European Migration Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Znaczenie migracji w życiu zawodowym kobiet i mężczyzn
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jazwinska-Motylska |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Kultura i Społeczeństwo | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial: Bodies at borders: analyzing the objectification and containment of migrants at border crossing
| Authors | Louise Ryan, Izabela Grabowska, Maria Lopez, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Sociology |
Conclusions
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... |
| Book Title | Migrants as Agents of Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Multisited Qualitative Longitudinal Research in Investigating Social Remittances and Change
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... |
| Book Title | Migrants as Agents of Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Researched Communities in Poland and in the UK: Transnational Spaces of Diffusion and Social Remittances
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... |
| Book Title | Migrants as Agents of Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Observing, Acquiring, Resisting: Migrants’ Agency in the Web of Social Remittances
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... |
| Book Title | Migrants as Agents of Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Collective Outcomes of Social Remittances: Reactions of Local Communities (Acceptance and Resistance)
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... |
| Book Title | Migrants as Agents of Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction: Social Remittances and “Hand-Made” Change by Migrants
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... |
| Book Title | Migrants as Agents of Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrants as Agents of Micro Social Changes
| Authors | Michał P. Garapich, Izabela Grabowska, Ewa Jaźwińska, ... |
| Book Title | Migrants as Agents of Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Your heart is where your roots are? Place attachment and belonging among Polish and Lithuanian returnees
| Authors | Agnieszka Trąbka, Luka Klimavičiūtė, Olga Czeranowska, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Young migrants, “integration” and the local: Critical reflections from European stakeholders
| Authors | Izabela Grabowska, Christina Hansen, Agata Jastrzebowska, ... |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |