Karolina Czerska-Shaw - Instytut Studiów Europejskich

Institute

Assistant Professor in the Department of Research on Social Change in Europe

Dr Karolina Czerska-Shaw

Dr Karolina Czerska-Shaw

  • Office: room 531

About

Sociologist, Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Ph.D. obtained at the Jagiellonian University in 2016). Her research interests include migration and mobility, European migration policies, politics and discourses, transnational civic ecosystems and diversity management.
She has had the opportunity to lecture at various institutions as a visiting professor, including Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City, University of Groningen in the Netherlands, Université de Strasbourg in France, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.

Since 2010, she has been professionally affiliated with the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, where she conducts courses on migration and refugee policies and practices citizenship, multiculturalism, collective identity transformations, anti-discrimination, social justice and qualitative research methodologies.

She is a member of the Jagiellonian Centre for Migration Studies and collaborates with the Multiculturalism and Migration Observatory at the Cracow University of Economics. She is the author of numerous reports and studies on the integration of migrants in Krakow and Małopolska, participating in expert teams advising local and regional authorities in developing strategies for the integration of migrants. She is also a collaborator at the Multicultural Centre in Krakow.

She is the Programme Director of the MA in Euroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context - International Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in European Studies.

  • Czerska-Shaw, K., & Stępka, M. (Eds.). (2027). Post-Truth Politics, Migration and Border Security: Analysing Political Discourses in the EU (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003675907

  • Czerska-Shaw, K. (2027). (Un)Becoming naive in European parliamentary debates : from humanitarianism to lies, foolishness and falsehoods. In K. Czerska-Shaw & M. Stępka (Eds.), Post-truth politics, migration and border security : analysing political discourses in the EU. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003675907-2pistartpiend

  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Pędziwiatr, K. (2026). Managing the Radical Transformation of a Migrant Population: A Case Study of Kraków. In: Łukasiewicz, K., Pachocka, M., Nowosielski, M. (eds) Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-28781-6_5

  • Czerska-Shaw, K., & Krzyworzeka-Jelinowska, A. (2026). “Unlocking Forced Migrant Agency in Civic Ecosystems: Local Mobilisation of Support for and by Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Poland.” Global Networks 26, no. 2: e70053. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.70053

  • Frahm, O., Czerska-Shaw, K., Orzechowska-Wacławska, J., Stępka, M., Banach, M. & Fijał, M. (2026). Chapter 5 Give Me Some Nasty! Post-Truth Narratives in European Migration Debates. In M. Conrad & S. Newman (Ed.), Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age (pp. 95-116). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112222874-006

  • Frahm, O., Czerska-Shaw, K., Orzechowska-Wacławska, J., Stępka, M., Banach, M., & Fijał, M. (2026). Give me some nasty!  Post-truth narratives in European migration debates. W M. Conrad & S. Newman (red.), Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112222874-006 
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., & Dunin-Wąsowicz, R. (2025). Enacting the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) Triple Nexus: civic ecosystems at the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Globalizations, 1–18 (Online First). Link do publikacji
  • Bőgel, G., Brzozowski, J., Czerska-Shaw, K., Mátyás, L., Tausz, K. (2024). Refugees: Economic Costs and Eventual Benefits. W: Mátyás, L. (eds) Central and Eastern European Economies and the War in Ukraine. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. Link do publikacji.
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., & Dunin-Wąsowicz, R. (2024). Business & Entrepreneurs: Transnational Networks and Civic Goals on the Frontlines of the Russo-Ukraine War (PeaceRep Ukraine Report). Conflict and Civicness Research Group, London School of Economics. Link do publikacji.
  • Kubicki, P. & Czerska-Shaw, K. (2023). Uczestnictwo obcokrajowców w kulturze lokalnej : studium przypadku Krakowa. Zarządzanie w Kulturze; 1896-8201. 2023 R. 24, nr 2, s. 33-49.  doi: 10.4467/20843976ZK.23.006.18572
  • Czerska-Shaw, K. and Jacoby, T. (2023). Mapping Ukrainian Civicness Abroad in the War Effort: A Case Study of Poland (PeaceRep Ukraine Report). Conflict and Civicness Research Group, London School of Economics. Pobierz publikację. 
  • Czerska-Shaw K., Kubicki P. (2023). Detecting Urban Resilience. Foreign Residents’ Perceptions and Experiences of Public Services in a Globalising City: A Case Study of Krakow. Central and Eastern European Migration Review: 1-19. doi: 10.54667/ceemr.2023.08
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Warat, M. (eds) (2023). Imagining the future of Europe. Social and political actors’ proposals on European integration. EU3D Report 13, July 2023. ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo. ​Pobierz publikację.
  • Kubicki, P., Czerska-Shaw, K., Fantuz, F. (2023). Kapitał społeczny miasta globalizującego się. Studium przypadku Krakowa i Poznania. Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, DOI: 10.14746/cis.2023.55.2 
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Krzaklewska, E. (2022). Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule: Erasmus Mundus students in the European Higher Education Area, Mobilities, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1971053
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Gora, M., Sekerdej, K., Styczynska, N., Warat, M. &  Zielinska, K. (2022). Who's Dominating Whom? The Perception of (EU) Dominance in the Debate on the Future of Europe (December 7, 2022). EU3D Research Paper No. 26, 2022, ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo. ​Pobierz publikację. 
  • Czerska-Shaw, K., Krzaklewska, E. (2021). The super-mobile student: Global Educational trajectories in Erasmus Mundus”, in Cairns, D. (Ed) The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration.
  • Czerska-Shaw K., Galent, M., Gierat-Bieroń B. (eds) (2018). Visions and Revisions of Europe. Studies in Euroculture vol 4. Universitatsverlag Gottingen.
  • Czerska-Shaw, K. (2017). The Ghost in the Machine: An Overview and Analysis of British Multiculturalism, Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny; t. 43 nr 2 (164), s. 67-93
  • Czerska-Shaw, K, (2011). The Unbearable Lightness of Being Canadian? Negotiating National Identity through Citizenship Testing Materials, [in:], E. Bujnowksa, M. Gabryś, T. Sikora (eds.) Towards Critical Multiculturalism: Dialogues Between / Among Canadian Diaspora / Versun multiculturalisme critique: dialogues entre les diasporas canadiennes, Wyd. Para, Katowice 2011, p. 187-205.
  • K. Czerska. (2010). Integration Policies in France and the UK: An Analysis of the Discourse Surrounding Women’s Rights Within Civic Integration Handbooks [w:], M. Warat, A. Małek, A. (red.), Ponad granicami: kobiety, migracje, obywatelstwo, Wyd. UJ, Kraków 2010, s. 227-253.