Jun.-Prof. Dr. Karolina Barglowski

Areas of expertise

Migration

Social protection

Social inequality

Cultural sociology

Transnationality

Qualitative research

Migrant families

Further Information

Current academic positions

04/2017 – Junior Professor for Sociology of Migration (W1), Institute for Social Sciences, TU Dortmund

Prvious academic positions

10/2016 – 03/2017 Research associate, DFG funded project: „Transnational mobility and social positions in Europe“, Faculty for Sociology, Bielefeld University

01/2012 – 05/2016 Research associate, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 882 „From Heterogeneities to Inequalities“, Project C3: „Transnationality and the unequal distribution of informal social protection“, Faculty for Sociology, Bielefeld University

01/2015 – 05/2015 Graduate researcher, University of California in Berkeley, with Loïc Wacquant

02/2011 – 12/2011 Research associate, Institute for Sociology, University Duisburg-Essen

10/2010 – 04/2011 Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies, Project “Diversity and Contact”

Education

05/2016 Dr. phil., Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

2012 – 2016 Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)

09/2009 Diploma, major in Sociology, minors in Psychology and Political Sciences

Current research projects

2020 - 2022 "Migrant Organizations and the Co-Productions of Social Protection - A Multilevel Analysis of Migrant Practices in Welfare State Arrangements", a cooperative project between the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Ruhr University Bochum and the Technical University Dortmund. Further information can be found on the project homepage.

Past research projects (a selection)

10/2016 - 03/2017 Research associate, DFG funded project: „Transnational mobility and social positions in Europe“, Faculty for Sociology, Bielefeld University Further information can be found on the project homepage.

01/2012 - 05/2016 Research associate, Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 882 „From Heterogeneities to Inequalities“, Project C3: „Transnationality and the unequal distribution of informal social protection“, Faculty for Sociology, Bielefeld University. Further information can be found on the project homepage.

Monographs

Barglowski, K. (2019): Cultures of transnationality in European migration. Subjectivity, family and inequality. Abingdon/New York: Routledge Research in Transnationalism.

Barglowski, K. (2016): Social expectations in transnational social spaces. Linking migration and inequalities. Dissertation, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld.

Editorships

Bilecen, B., Barglowski, K., Faist, T. und E. Kofman (2019): Gendered dynamics of migration and transnational social protection, Special Issue in Comparative Migration Studies 8(1).

Faist, T., Bilecen, B., Barglowski, K., Sienkiewicz, J.J. (2015): Safety nets of migrants across borders: An inquiry into social mechanisms of inequality, Special Issue in Population, Space and Place 21(3).

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Barglowski, K. (2021): Transnational parenting in settled families: social class, migration experiences and child rearing among Polish migrants in Germany, Journal of Family Studies.

Bilecen, B., Barglowski, K., Faist, T. und E. Kofman (2019): Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection, Einleitung zum Special Issue in Comparative Migration Studies 7 (47).

Barglowski, K. (2019): Migrants’ class and parenting: The role of cultural capital in Migrants’ inequalities in education, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45 (11): 1970-1987.

Barglowski, K., Pustułka, P. (2018): Tightening early childcare choices: Gender and social class inequalities among Polish mothers in Germany and the UK. Comparative Migration Studies 6 (36).

Barglowski, K., Amelina, A, Bilecen, B. (2018): Coming out in transnational families: Intimate confessions under Western eyes, Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 24 (6): 836-851.

Barglowski, K. (2016): Migration pressures and opportunities: Challenges to belonging in the European Unions’ mobility regime, InterDisciplines—Journal of History and Sociology 7: 63-86.

Barglowski, K. (2015): The normativity of migration and intergenerational care in the Polish-German transnational social space, Migration Studies—Polish Diaspora Review 3: 57-75.

Faist, T., Bilecen, B., Barglowski, K., Sienkiewicz, JJ. (2015): Transnational social protection: Migrants’ strategies and patterns of inequalities, Einleitung zum Special Issue in Population, Space and Place 21(3): 193-202.

Barglowski, K., Krzyżowski, Ł., Świątek, P. (2015): Caregiving in Polish–German transnational social space: Circulating narratives and intersecting heterogeneities, Population, Space and Place 21(3): 257-269.

Barglowski, K., Bilecen, B., Amelina, A. (2015): Approaching transnational social protection: Methodological challenges and empirical applications, Population, Space and Place 21(3): 215-226.

Bilecen, B, Barglowski, K. (2015): On the assemblages of informal and formal transnational social protection, Population, Space and Place 21(3): 203- 214.

Müller, S., Barglowski, K. (2013): Semiprofessionen und der Wandel wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Organisationen: Subjektbezogene Erfahrungen zur institutionellen Transformation von Wohlfahrtsstaatlichkeit, Journal für Psychologie, 21 (3), Sonderheft: Identität und Wandel in Organisationen.

Book chapters

Amelina, A., Barglowski, K. (2019): Key methodological tools for diaspora studies: Combining the transnational and intersectional approaches. In: Cohen, R. und Fischer, C. (Hrgs.): Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies: 31-39.

Barglowski, K. (2018): Das Aufspüren der Ambivalenzen sozialen Lebens in Migrationskontexten: Zur Sequenzanalyse transnationaler Deutungsmuster in heterogenen Forschungsteams. In Sammet, K. und Erhard, F. (Hrsg.), Sequenzanalyse Praktisch. Beltz/Juventa: 347-366.

Barglowski, K. (2018): Where, what and whom to study? Principles, guidelines and empirical examples of case selection and sampling in migration research. In Zapata-Barrero, R. und Yalaz, E. (Hrsg.), Handbook of Qualitative Research in European Migration Studies. Springer: 203-225.

Barglowski, K. (2015): GENDER. In Shehan, C.L. (Hrsg.), The Encyclopedia of Family Studies. Wiley-Blackwell: 901-908.

Barglowski, K., Amelina, A., Bilecen, B. ’Sexualität’ und ’Transnationalität’ aus intersektioneller Perspektive (2014), In Martina Löw (Hrsg.), Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Verhandlungen des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bochum und Dortmund 2012. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag.

Invited talks

Barglowski, K. Petermann, S. (11/2019): How do places of residence shape social networks and social capital? On socio-spatial context of social contact from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Vortrag im Rahmen der Ruhr Lecture series on “Methodologies in metropolitan research: Disciplinary differences, challenges and solutions”, TU Dortmund.

Barglowski, K. (10/2019): Migrant capital and children’s transnational socialization: Interpretations of dependence and independence in migrant parents’ narratives, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

Barglowski, K. (06/2019): From Outsiders to (Unequal) EU-Citizens: Post-colonial Perspectives on Exclusion, Upgrading and Belonging on the Example of Poland. Lecture at the conference "Struggles for the Limits of what can be said", TU Cottbus.

Barglowski, K. (03/2019): Women on the move. Continuity, Transformation and Inequality in Women's Migration in the EU. Lecture in the context of the Feminist Action Weeks in Bochum.

Barglowski, K. (07/2018): Childcare within and across borders: Perspectives from sociology of culture and of inequality. ZIF Forschungsgruppe “Global and Transnational Social Policy” geleitet von Eleonore Kofman und Alexandra Kaasch, Universität Bielefeld.

Barglowski, K. (09/2016): Social expectations in transnational social spaces: Linking migration and inequalities. Konferenz “Changing power relations and the drag effects of habitus” an der Universität Münster.

Accepted papers at conferences

Barglowski, K., Fiałkowska, K. (10/2019): Migrating “West” in post-enlargement Europe: Theorizing narratives and counter-narratives of belonging in the example of Poland. Talk at the interdisciplinary symposium on “Racialization, whiteness and politics of othering in contemporary Europe,” Reykjavík.

Barglowski, K. (09/2019): Beyond mechanistic and material approaches to migration: Transnational subjectivity in post-socialist spaces. European Sociological Association, Manchester.

Barglowski, K. (02/2019): Conceptualizing the nexus of migration and social protection: assembling institutional doings of migration and politics of deservingness. IMISCOE spring conference, Lüttich, Belgien.

Barglowski, K. (06/2018): Migrants’ class and transnational parenting: How does cultural capital shape migrants’ education-related practices? IMISCOE Konferenz, Barcelona.

Barglowski, K., Sienkiewicz, J.J. (06/2016): The symbolic dimension of social protection: Unequal expectations in transnational social relations. ISA Konferenz, Wien.

Barglowski, K. (06/2016): Parental effect and ethnic penalty: Migrant children from Poland in the German school system. Internationale Konferenz “Troubling Times for Europe? Families, Migration and Politics”, Jagiellonien Universität Krakau.

Barglowski, K. (04/2015): Immigrant parents’ childcare strategies: Balancing national incorporation and transnational attachments. Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop (organisiert von Irene Bloemraad und Cybelle Fox), UC Berkeley.