Research interests:

I am cultural anthropologist interested in migration, border regimes, social movements, and urban transformation in Southeastern Europe. My research focuses on the external borders of the European Union, primarily in Serbia, North Macedonia, and Poland. I examine migration routes, border-crossing strategies, the impact of migration on local communities and the concept of cooperation in the context of initiatives supporting migrants in Poland. Currently, I am researching the role of brokers in shaping migration routes from Latin America to Poland. Additionally, I have a keen interest in the anthropology of affect and the anthropology of sound.

I am the author of academic and popular science articles, expert reports for the NGO sector, and radio materials.

 

Publications:

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♦ [with Izabela Wagner] Harming by Interviewing? Methodological and Ethical Dilemmas of In-deep Interviews with people on the move, Population Place and Space, 2025 (forthcoming).

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♦ Book Review: Spaghetti With Ajvar. Translocal Everyday Life of Muslims in Macedonia and in Italy, Warsaw, Warsaw University Press, 2015, 273 Pages.” EthnoAnthropoZoom/ЕтноАнтропоЗум 24 (24), 236-34. 2024

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♦ Sojusze promigracyjne – współpraca ruchów oddolnych z państwem [Pro-migrant Alliances – Cooperation Between Grassroots Movements and the State]. trzeci sektor 2024.

 

♦ The Balkan Route. Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces, Routledge, 2024.

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♦ Sojusze promigracyjne – trzyletnia lekcja współpracy [Pro-migrant Alliances – A Three-Year Lesson in Cooperation], NGO.pl, 2023.

 

♦ Crafting Activists from Tourists: Volunteer Engagement During the “Refugee Crisis”. In: Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile, (Eds.): Natalia Bloch, Kathleen Adams, Routledge 2023.

 

♦ O wzajemnych potrzebach - próba dekolonizacji aktywizmu [On Mutual Needs – An Attempt at Decolonizing Activism], Czas Kultury, 2022.

 

♦ Understanding the Albanians' Return to North Macedonia, Ethnologia Balkanica, 2022.

 

♦ Unia tu nie pomoże. Na granicy z Białorusią PiS realizuje jej politykę [The EU Won’t Help Here – At the Belarus Border, PiS Is Implementing Its Policy], Krytyka Polityczna, September 24, 2021.

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♦ Rydzewski Robert (2020) Hope, Waiting, and Mobility: Migrant Movement in Serbia after the EU-Turkey Deal, Movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 5:1 https://movements-journal.org/issues/08.balkanroute/04.rydzewski--hope-waiting-and-mobility.html

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♦ Rydzewski R. Mobilność w czasach zamkniętych granic – notatki z badań terenowych w Serbii, Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne, Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, 56, 2017, s. 161- 176. [pdf]

 

♦ Rydzewski R. The experiences of Polish migrants in Iceland,  Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej 6, 2016, pp. 213-231. [wspólnie z: Gospodarczyk,

H., Szajda, H., Żłobecka, L.] [pdf]

 

♦ Rydzewski R. Ethnic gentrification. The silent fight for a Macedonian city, EthnoAnthropoZoom, 14, 2015, pp. 8-38. [pdf]

 

♦ Rydzewski R. Przymus samozatrudnienia. Przedsiębiorczość imigrancka jako strategia adaptacyjna na poznańskim rynku pracy, Nie dość użyteczni. Zmagania imigrantów na lokalnym rynku pracy, Red. N. Bloch, I. Main, K. Sydow, Poznań: Centrum Badań Migracyjnych UAM 2015, s. 53-74. [wspólnie z: Natalia Bloch] [pdf]

 

♦ Rydzewski R. Kultura migracji. Współczesne migracje Polaków z rumuńskiej Bukowiny [w:] Polonia w Europie. Polska społeczność na rumuńskiej Bukowinie, Red . N. Maksymowicz, Szczecin-Praha-Frankfurt: Katedra Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej Usz 2012, s. 116-121.

[wspólnie z: A. Kochaniewicz]

 

♦ Rydzewski R. Sprzedawcy na poznańskich bazarach, [w:] Migracje a heterogeniczność kulturowa. Na podstawie badań antropologicznych w Poznaniu, Red. M. Buchowski, J. Schmidt, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje 2012, s. 102-116.

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The list of current publications is available at:

https://amu.academia.edu/RobertRydzewski

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Others:

Coordinator of the CREOLE Master’s Program in Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes

Member of Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University

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Scholarships:

♦ Centre for South-East European Studies, University of Graz, Austria Postdoctoral Fellowship – 09/2021 – 09/2022

♦ WIRTH Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Doctoral Fellowship – 09/2018 – 09/2019

♦ Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Doctoral Fellowship – 09/2017 – 03/2018

♦ Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Doctoral Fellowship – 01/2015 – 07/2015

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Awards and Distinctions:

♦ UAM Rector's Scholarship, 2023

♦ Main Prize of Zofia Sokolewicz Award granted by the Polish Ethnological Society for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of ethnology for the years 2018–2020, 2021.

♦ Honorable Mention for the radio report "Guide to Crossing Borders" at the 21st Jacek Stwora Festival organized by Polish Radio, 2015.

♦ Main Prize of Paweł Edmund Strzelecki Award granted by the Emigration Museum in Gdynia and the Kolosy Festival for the short documentary film "Święty M.", 2014.

♦ Honorable Mention for the radio documentary "For Now, I Wait" in the radio competition "Qualifications on the Wave" organized by the Institute of Educational Research, 2013.

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Media:

Fiasko twierdzy Europa. „Przepuszczamy uprzywilejowanych, blokujemy niemile widzianych” OKO.PRES [INTERVIEW]

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Selected radio reports:

​- Ja się tam przydam, 2012
- Przewodnik przekraczania granic, 2015
- Za dwie głowy na trzy lata, 2015
- Wolontariusze dla uchodźców, 2016​​

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