Neoliberalism, Racialisation and Middling Migrants in Poland
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- ISBN 9781032561561
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book analyses the complex relations between racism and neoliberalism in the lives of middling migrants in Poland.
Focusing on ‘middling migrants’ – a heterogeneous category of migrants who are neither a highly-paid elite, nor low-paid or low-skilled workers – it offers a novel approach to the manner in which the intricate relationship between racism and neoliberalism plays out in migrants’ lived experiences of and their strategies for coping with racism. Based on qualitative research among migrants from Western Europe, South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, and the post-Soviet area, the authors argue that while experiencing racism on a daily basis, middling migrants perpetuate the neoliberal hierarchy of desirable and undesirable migrants, while reproducing its logic of silencing and marginalising racism as a social problem.
An empirically grounded study of the relationship between racism and neoliberalism in relation to migration – and the conditions under which racism is enabled to persist – Neoliberalism, Racialisation and Middling Migrants in Poland will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and politics with interests in migration and diaspora, and race, racism and ethnicity.
Krzysztof Jaskułowski is Professor Sociology at University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is the author of The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland: Between Nationalism, Fear and Empathy, and the co-author of The Memory Politics of the Cursed Soldiers in Poland: Authoritarian Nationalism, Hegemony and Emotions.
Marek Pawlak is Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is the author of Haunting Futures: Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland.
