Research interests:

♦ migrations within Poland and Europe - different groups of migrants (refugees, repatriates, transmigrants, etc.) and their specifics

♦ problems of adaptation, acculturation, assimilation, integration, enculturation of foreigners

♦ ethnic policy in Poland and other European Union countries

♦ ethnic conflicts

♦ Germans in Greater Poland past and present (the process of the formation of the German nation, Polish-German relations in everyday life in the 18th - 21st centuries, the integration processes of German settlers throughout history, migrations of Poles to Germany, the contemporary phenomenon of transnationalism)

♦ Bambergers (reconstruction of history, causes and course of assimilation, acculturation, contemporary descendants of the Bamberg settlers, identity of group members)

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The latest publications:

♦ Szczepaniak-Kroll A., Szymoszyn 2023, Migratory success in the experience of Poles from Berlin and London, Ethnicities, (OnlineFirst).

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♦ Szczepaniak-Kroll A., Posern-Zieliński A. (eds.) 2023, Polacy sukcesu. Między emigracją a transnarodowością: nowy kształt polskiej diaspory w pięciu stolicach Europy Zachodniej (Monograph submitted to the IAE PAN publishing house).

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♦ Szczepaniak-Kroll A. 2022, Polacy w Berlinie, czyli czy „niewidzialny” to znaczy zintegrowany?, Przegląd Zachodni, 3(384): 157-176.

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♦ Szczepaniak-Kroll A. 2020, Polacy w Berlinie (1980-2015). Między integracją a zachowaniem tożsamości, Warszawa-Poznań (Monograph).

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♦ Szczepaniak-Kroll 2020, Rola polskich liderek w tworzeniu i rozwijaniu stowarzyszeń migranckich w Berlinie. Motywacje, cele i skutki. Studium przypadku, Przegląd Zachodni 2/375: 225-253.

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♦ Szczepaniak-Kroll A. 2019, Gaining Social Mobility: Polish Migrants in Berlin 1980-2016, Sprawy Narodowościowe 51/2019: 1-19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11649/sn.1963

 

 

The most important scientific projects:

♦  2023 an investigator in the project “Supporting the integration of migrants in the local labour market in the municipalities of the Poznań district” [original title: "Wsparcie integracji migrantów na lokalnym rynku pracy w gminach powiatu poznańskiego"], carried out by CeBaM Fundation.

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♦  2015 - 2018, a key investigator in the ethnological project financed by the National Science Centre, titled “Poles of the Success. Between Emigration and Transnationality: New Aspect of the Polish Diaspora in Western Europe” [original title: "Polacy sukcesu między emigracją a transnarodowością. Nowe oblicze polskiej diaspory w Europie Zachodniej", No. 2014/13/B/HS3/04927, ID 254410, project manager - prof. Aleksander Posern-Zieliński].

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♦ 2013 -2015, an investigator in the project “Socio-cultural identification of foreigners” [original title: “Społeczno-kulturowa identyfikacja cudzoziemców”] under the supervision of prof UAM (Adam Mickiewicz University) dr hab. Jacek Schmidt.

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♦ 2009-2012, a project manager in the ethnological project financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education/National Science Centre (NCN), Poland, titled “Transnationalism in the Polish-German context. The Germans in Poznan and the Poles in Berlin” [original title: "Transnarodowość w kontekście polsko-niemieckim. Niemcy w Poznaniu i Polacy w Berlinie", N N109 217436].