Dr Anna Gawlewicz

  • Senior Lecturer (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

telephone: 01413308236
email: Anna.Gawlewicz@glasgow.ac.uk

University of Glasgow, Room 114, 25 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RS

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226

Biography

I am Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. My work is broadly concerned with the issues of international migration, social diversity/difference and wellbeing. I hold a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Sheffield, UK and a combined BSc + MSc in International Relations and European Studies from the Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

I am co-leading the PostCEE network connecting researchers working on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe.

I have worked extensively on research projects including, among others:

  • the Rural Brexit project (as a Co-Investigator) funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2023-2025) and co-led by Prof. Sarah Neal (Principal Investigator), Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones and Dr Jesse Heley looking at migration and rural social relations in the context of Brexit. In a wider perspective, the project explores how Brexit politics and policies interact with wider social, economic and demographic rural changes and affect everyday social life. 
  • the Migrant Essential Workers project (as a Co-Investigator) funded by the ESRC/UKRI (2020-2022) and co-led by Prof. Sharon Wright (Principal Investigator), Dr Kasia Narkowicz and Dr Aneta Piekut investigating health, social, economic and cultural impacts of Covid-19 on migrant essential workers in the UK. To explore these issues with an adequate level of nuance and detail, the project focuses on one prominent migrant group, Polish migrants, as a case study.  
  • the Living Together project (as a Principal Investigator) funded by the Urban Studies Foundation (2017-2019) exploring encounters between Polish migrants and the long-settled population in the East End of Glasgow in the context of Brexit. In a wider perspective, this project looks at migrant-'host' encounters in rapidly changing urban areas and how institutional and political 'hostile environments' affect these encounters.  
  • the Intimate Migrations project (as a Research Associate) funded by the ESRC and led by Dr Francesca Stella (2015-2017) looking at the experiences of LGBT migrants from Central and Eastern Europe in Scotland. In a wider perspective, this project focuses on the role of sexuality in decisions to migrate, LGBT migrants’ sense of belonging in home and host societies, and their social networks.
  • the LiveDifference project funded by the ERC (as a PhD Candidate) and led by Prof. Gill Valentine (2010-2014) investigating the nature of encounters with difference in two distinctive European contexts: the UK and Poland. As part of my PhD, I explored how migration from Poland to the UK impacts on people’s values and attitudes towards difference in terms of ethnicity, religion, class, sexuality, gender, age and disability.  

Research interests

My research interests include:

1) International migration

  • Migration and Covid-19, Brexit, and hostile environments
  • Migrant-‘host’ encounters/relations 
  • Migration and the city: migrant city-making
  • Social diversity: attitudes to/encounters with difference
  • Transnational circulation of ideas: social remittances
  • Migration and language: migrant language of difference
  • Migration and sexuality: queer migration
  • Post/decolonial approaches to researching migration
  • Central and East European/Polish migration to the UK

2) Wellbeing

  • Mental health and employment
  • Migration and mental health 

3) Qualitative methodologies

  • Translation in research methods
  • Position/positionality of migrant researcher
  • Reflexive and intersectional methodologies

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2025) ‘It changes your priorities’: stay-return motivations among UK’s Polish essential workers in the polycrisis of Brexit and Covid-19. Mobilities, (doi: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2478205) (Early Online Publication)

Narkowicz, Kasia, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Pędziwiatr, Konrad (Eds.) (2025) Migration and Race: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781032518152

Narkowicz, Kasia, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Pędziwiatr, Konrad (2025) Introduction: race in CEE migrations. In: Narkowicz, Kasia, Gawlewicz, Anna and Pędziwiatr, Konrad (eds.) Migration and Race: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Series: Regions and Cities. Routledge, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781032518152

2024

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Narkowicz, Kasia, Piekut, Aneta, Trevena, Paulina and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2024) 'They made bets that I’d die’: impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(2), pp. 442-460. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2249620)

2023

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2023) Magic happened: co-producing a research-inspired exhibition. Research Matters, 2023(Dec), pp. 1-2.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Narkowicz, Kasia and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2023) Heroes or villains? Migrant essential workers and combined hostilities of Covid-19 and Brexit. Discover Society: New Series, 3(2),

2022

Trevena, Paulina, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2022) Addressing the needs of Scotland’s migrant and minority ethnic populations under Covid-19: lessons for the future. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2022) Throwntogetherness in the context of Brexit: diverse community spaces in the East End of Glasgow. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(2-3), pp. 385-396. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055928)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yiftachel, Oren (2022) 'Throwntogetherness' in hostile environments: migration and the remaking of urban citizenship. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(2-3), pp. 346-358. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2056350)

Trevena, Paulina, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Piekut, Aneta, Narkowicz, Kasia and Gawłowski, Robert (2022) Impacts of Covid-19 on Migrant Essential Workers in Scotland: Policy recommendations. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Trevena, Paulina, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Piekut, Aneta, Narkowicz, Kasia and Gawłowski, Robert (2022) Impacts of Covid-19 on Migrant Essential Workers in the UK: Policy recommendations. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Harris, Catherine, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Valentine, Gill (2022) Attitudes towards immigration: responses to the increased presence of Polish migrants in the UK post 2004. Migration and Development, 11(1), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1080/21632324.2019.1697489)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Kent, Gabi, Meegan, Jenny and O'Sullivan, Philip (2022) Educational experiments: learning and 'living together' in contested places. In: Kullman, Kim, Morris, Andy, Lorne, Colin, Bingham, Nick and Revill, George (eds.) Changing Geographies of the United Kingdom (Book 2). The Open University: Milton Keynes, pp. 211-245.

2021

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2021) Migrations. In: Murji, Karim, Neal, Sarah and Solomos, John (eds.) An Introduction to Sociology. SAGE. ISBN 9781526492791

Neal, Sarah, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Heley, Jesse and Dafydd Jones, Rhys (2021) Don’t forget the countryside: rural communities and Brexit. LSE Brexit Blog, 19 Apr.

Neal, Sarah, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Heley, Jesse and Jones, Rhys Dafydd (2021) Rural Brexit? The ambivalent politics of rural community, migration and dependency. Journal of Rural Studies, 82, pp. 176-183. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.01.017)

Sotkasiira, Tiina and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2021) The politics of embedding and the right to remain in post-Brexit Britain. Ethnicities, 21(1), pp. 23-41. (doi: 10.1177/1468796820913419)

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2021) Social networks, language and identity negotiations among queer migrants in Scotland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(11), pp. 2537-2555. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1863203)

2020

Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766 and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) The UK welfare system is failing claimants with mental health problems – here’s what needs to be done. Conversation, 6 Nov.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Key research findings, pages 4-10. In Wright S (ed.) Mental Health, Welfare Conditionality and Employment support: Policy Recommendations and Key Findings. Report. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Robertson, Laura, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Bailey, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Policy recommendations, pages 1-3. In Wright S (ed.) Mental Health, Welfare Conditionality and Employment support: Policy Recommendations and Key Findings. Report. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) Do we need other ‘posts’ in migration studies? Polish migration to the UK through a postdependence lens. Area, 52(3), pp. 523-530. (doi: 10.1111/area.12624)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Bailey, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Analysis Protocol: Constructions of Mental Health and Problematic Alcohol Use Within UK’s Health and Welfare Policy. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Bailey, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Lived Experiences of Mental Health Problems and Welfare Conditionality. Working Paper. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) “Scotland’s different”: narratives of Scotland’s distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era. Scottish Affairs, 29(3), pp. 321-335. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0326)

Sotkasiira, Tiina and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) Ties that bind, or ties that count? The pressure on EU citizens to be ‘deserving’ migrants. LSE Brexit Blog, 3 Jul.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Sotkasiira, Tiina (2020) Revisiting geographies of temporalities: the significance of time in migrant responses to Brexit. Population, Space and Place, 26(1), e2275. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2275)

2019

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2019) Translation in qualitative methods. In: Atkinson, P.A., Delamont, S., Williams, R. and Cernat, A. (eds.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations: an Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781526421036

Dafydd Jones, Rhys, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Heley, Jesse and Neal, Sarah (2019) La campagna inglese non è un quadro di Constable [The countryside, Britain and Brexit: The rural in national politics and identities]. Limes: Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, 19(5),

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2019) What people say about migration and Brexit: stories from Glasgow’s East End. LSE Brexit Blog, 17 May.

2018

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Narkowicz, Kasia (2018) Slurs like ‘letter box’ are more problematic than we think: how discriminatory language travels. EUROPP: London School of Economics Blogs, 7 Sep.

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Flynn, Moya and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2018) Unpacking the meanings of ‘a normal life’ among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Eastern European migrants in Scotland. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7(1), pp. 55-72. (doi: 10.17467/ceemr.2017.16)

2017

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Flynn, Moya and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2017) Intimate Migrations Final Report - Appendix 2: Recommendations from Second Consultation Event. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

2016

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Flynn, Moya (2016) Intimate Migrations: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Migrants in Scotland. Project Report. GRAMNet, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2016) Beyond openness and prejudice: the consequences of migrant encounters with difference. Environment and Planning A, 48(2), pp. 256-272. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X15605836)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2016) Language and translation strategies in researching migrant experience of difference from the position of migrant researcher. Qualitative Research, 16(1), pp. 27-42. (doi: 10.1177/1468794114557992)

Vieten, Ulrike M. and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2016) Visible difference, stigmatising language(s) and the discursive construction of prejudices against others in Leeds and Warsaw. In: Vieten, Ulrike M. and Valentine, Gill (eds.) Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Series: New visions of the cosmopolitan (5). Peter Lang: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, pp. 203-221. ISBN 9783034318594

2015

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) Production and Transnational transfer of the language of difference: the effects of Polish migrants’ encounters with superdiversity. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 4(2), pp. 25-42.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) 'We inspire each other, subconsciously': the circulation of attitudes towards difference between Polish migrants in the UK and their significant others in the sending society. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(13), pp. 2215-2234. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1045463)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Narkowicz, Kasia (2015) Islamophobia on the move: circulation of anti-Muslim prejudice between Poland and the UK. In: Suleiman, Yasir (ed.) Muslims in the UK and Europe I. Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge: Cambridge, pp. 90-100.

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) Intimate Migrations: lesbian, gay, bisexual migrants in Scotland. Project website. [Website]

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) Beyond 'us' and 'them': migrant encounters with difference and redefining the national. Fennia, 193(2), pp. 198-211. (doi: 10.11143/46322)

2013

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2013) Book Review: New Mobilities in Europe: Polish Migration to Ireland Post-2004. Torben Krings, Elaine Moriarty, James Wickham, Alicja Bobek, Justyna Salomońska. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 2(2), pp. 99-101. [Book Review]

2012

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yndigegn, Carsten (2012) The (in)visible wall of fortress Europe? Elite migrating youth perceiving the sensitive Polish-Ukrainian border. In: Jagetić Andersen, Dorte, Klatt, Martin and Sandberg, Marie (eds.) The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders Between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Re-scaling Europe. Ashgate, pp. 179-199. ISBN 9781409437086

2011

Andersen, Dorte, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yndigegn, Carsten (2011) EU edges and border practices: Slovenian-Croatian and Polish-Ukrainian borders as laboratories of borderwork on a post-national level. In: Jańczak, Jarosław (ed.) De-Bordering, Re-Bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries. Series: Collegium Polonicum, 16. Logos Verlag: Berlin, pp. 83-96. ISBN 9783832530020

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yndigegn, Carsten (2011) Multi-layered identities as a consequence of a regular border experience: trans-nationally migrating elite youth facing "sensitive" Polish-Ukrainian border. In: Kalogeresis, Athanasios (ed.) The Multifaceted Economic and Political Geographies of Internal and External EU Borders: Proceedings of the 2010 European Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Veria, pp. 241-262.

2009

Mikułowski Pomorski, Jerzy and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2009) Family Europe: the shaping of the EU’s image in the Polish press at the time of Poland’s accession to the EU (2004) and in the fifth year of membership (2008). In: Skotnicka-Illasiewicz, Elżbieta (ed.) 5 Years of Poland’s Membership of the EU in the Social Context. The Office of the Committee of European Integration: Warsaw, pp. 200-225. ISBN 9788375670455

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Articles

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2025) ‘It changes your priorities’: stay-return motivations among UK’s Polish essential workers in the polycrisis of Brexit and Covid-19. Mobilities, (doi: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2478205) (Early Online Publication)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Narkowicz, Kasia, Piekut, Aneta, Trevena, Paulina and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2024) 'They made bets that I’d die’: impacts of Covid-19 on Polish essential workers in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(2), pp. 442-460. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2249620)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2023) Magic happened: co-producing a research-inspired exhibition. Research Matters, 2023(Dec), pp. 1-2.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Narkowicz, Kasia and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2023) Heroes or villains? Migrant essential workers and combined hostilities of Covid-19 and Brexit. Discover Society: New Series, 3(2),

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2022) Throwntogetherness in the context of Brexit: diverse community spaces in the East End of Glasgow. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(2-3), pp. 385-396. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2055928)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yiftachel, Oren (2022) 'Throwntogetherness' in hostile environments: migration and the remaking of urban citizenship. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 26(2-3), pp. 346-358. (doi: 10.1080/13604813.2022.2056350)

Harris, Catherine, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Valentine, Gill (2022) Attitudes towards immigration: responses to the increased presence of Polish migrants in the UK post 2004. Migration and Development, 11(1), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1080/21632324.2019.1697489)

Neal, Sarah, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Heley, Jesse and Dafydd Jones, Rhys (2021) Don’t forget the countryside: rural communities and Brexit. LSE Brexit Blog, 19 Apr.

Neal, Sarah, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Heley, Jesse and Jones, Rhys Dafydd (2021) Rural Brexit? The ambivalent politics of rural community, migration and dependency. Journal of Rural Studies, 82, pp. 176-183. (doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.01.017)

Sotkasiira, Tiina and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2021) The politics of embedding and the right to remain in post-Brexit Britain. Ethnicities, 21(1), pp. 23-41. (doi: 10.1177/1468796820913419)

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2021) Social networks, language and identity negotiations among queer migrants in Scotland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(11), pp. 2537-2555. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1863203)

Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766 and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) The UK welfare system is failing claimants with mental health problems – here’s what needs to be done. Conversation, 6 Nov.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) Do we need other ‘posts’ in migration studies? Polish migration to the UK through a postdependence lens. Area, 52(3), pp. 523-530. (doi: 10.1111/area.12624)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) “Scotland’s different”: narratives of Scotland’s distinctiveness in the post-Brexit-vote era. Scottish Affairs, 29(3), pp. 321-335. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0326)

Sotkasiira, Tiina and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2020) Ties that bind, or ties that count? The pressure on EU citizens to be ‘deserving’ migrants. LSE Brexit Blog, 3 Jul.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Sotkasiira, Tiina (2020) Revisiting geographies of temporalities: the significance of time in migrant responses to Brexit. Population, Space and Place, 26(1), e2275. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2275)

Dafydd Jones, Rhys, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Heley, Jesse and Neal, Sarah (2019) La campagna inglese non è un quadro di Constable [The countryside, Britain and Brexit: The rural in national politics and identities]. Limes: Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, 19(5),

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2019) What people say about migration and Brexit: stories from Glasgow’s East End. LSE Brexit Blog, 17 May.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Narkowicz, Kasia (2018) Slurs like ‘letter box’ are more problematic than we think: how discriminatory language travels. EUROPP: London School of Economics Blogs, 7 Sep.

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Flynn, Moya and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2018) Unpacking the meanings of ‘a normal life’ among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Eastern European migrants in Scotland. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 7(1), pp. 55-72. (doi: 10.17467/ceemr.2017.16)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2016) Beyond openness and prejudice: the consequences of migrant encounters with difference. Environment and Planning A, 48(2), pp. 256-272. (doi: 10.1177/0308518X15605836)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2016) Language and translation strategies in researching migrant experience of difference from the position of migrant researcher. Qualitative Research, 16(1), pp. 27-42. (doi: 10.1177/1468794114557992)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) Production and Transnational transfer of the language of difference: the effects of Polish migrants’ encounters with superdiversity. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 4(2), pp. 25-42.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) 'We inspire each other, subconsciously': the circulation of attitudes towards difference between Polish migrants in the UK and their significant others in the sending society. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(13), pp. 2215-2234. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1045463)

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) Beyond 'us' and 'them': migrant encounters with difference and redefining the national. Fennia, 193(2), pp. 198-211. (doi: 10.11143/46322)

Book Sections

Narkowicz, Kasia, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Pędziwiatr, Konrad (2025) Introduction: race in CEE migrations. In: Narkowicz, Kasia, Gawlewicz, Anna and Pędziwiatr, Konrad (eds.) Migration and Race: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Series: Regions and Cities. Routledge, pp. 1-13. ISBN 9781032518152

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Kent, Gabi, Meegan, Jenny and O'Sullivan, Philip (2022) Educational experiments: learning and 'living together' in contested places. In: Kullman, Kim, Morris, Andy, Lorne, Colin, Bingham, Nick and Revill, George (eds.) Changing Geographies of the United Kingdom (Book 2). The Open University: Milton Keynes, pp. 211-245.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2021) Migrations. In: Murji, Karim, Neal, Sarah and Solomos, John (eds.) An Introduction to Sociology. SAGE. ISBN 9781526492791

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2019) Translation in qualitative methods. In: Atkinson, P.A., Delamont, S., Williams, R. and Cernat, A. (eds.) SAGE Research Methods Foundations: an Encyclopedia. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781526421036

Vieten, Ulrike M. and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2016) Visible difference, stigmatising language(s) and the discursive construction of prejudices against others in Leeds and Warsaw. In: Vieten, Ulrike M. and Valentine, Gill (eds.) Cartographies of Differences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Series: New visions of the cosmopolitan (5). Peter Lang: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, pp. 203-221. ISBN 9783034318594

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Narkowicz, Kasia (2015) Islamophobia on the move: circulation of anti-Muslim prejudice between Poland and the UK. In: Suleiman, Yasir (ed.) Muslims in the UK and Europe I. Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge: Cambridge, pp. 90-100.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yndigegn, Carsten (2012) The (in)visible wall of fortress Europe? Elite migrating youth perceiving the sensitive Polish-Ukrainian border. In: Jagetić Andersen, Dorte, Klatt, Martin and Sandberg, Marie (eds.) The Border Multiple: The Practicing of Borders Between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Re-scaling Europe. Ashgate, pp. 179-199. ISBN 9781409437086

Andersen, Dorte, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yndigegn, Carsten (2011) EU edges and border practices: Slovenian-Croatian and Polish-Ukrainian borders as laboratories of borderwork on a post-national level. In: Jańczak, Jarosław (ed.) De-Bordering, Re-Bordering and Symbols on the European Boundaries. Series: Collegium Polonicum, 16. Logos Verlag: Berlin, pp. 83-96. ISBN 9783832530020

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Yndigegn, Carsten (2011) Multi-layered identities as a consequence of a regular border experience: trans-nationally migrating elite youth facing "sensitive" Polish-Ukrainian border. In: Kalogeresis, Athanasios (ed.) The Multifaceted Economic and Political Geographies of Internal and External EU Borders: Proceedings of the 2010 European Conference of the Association for Borderlands Studies. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Veria, pp. 241-262.

Mikułowski Pomorski, Jerzy and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2009) Family Europe: the shaping of the EU’s image in the Polish press at the time of Poland’s accession to the EU (2004) and in the fifth year of membership (2008). In: Skotnicka-Illasiewicz, Elżbieta (ed.) 5 Years of Poland’s Membership of the EU in the Social Context. The Office of the Committee of European Integration: Warsaw, pp. 200-225. ISBN 9788375670455

Book Reviews

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2013) Book Review: New Mobilities in Europe: Polish Migration to Ireland Post-2004. Torben Krings, Elaine Moriarty, James Wickham, Alicja Bobek, Justyna Salomońska. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 2(2), pp. 99-101. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Narkowicz, Kasia, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Pędziwiatr, Konrad (Eds.) (2025) Migration and Race: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. Series: Regions and cities. Routledge. ISBN 9781032518152

Research Reports or Papers

Trevena, Paulina, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2022) Addressing the needs of Scotland’s migrant and minority ethnic populations under Covid-19: lessons for the future. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Trevena, Paulina, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Piekut, Aneta, Narkowicz, Kasia and Gawłowski, Robert (2022) Impacts of Covid-19 on Migrant Essential Workers in Scotland: Policy recommendations. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Trevena, Paulina, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Piekut, Aneta, Narkowicz, Kasia and Gawłowski, Robert (2022) Impacts of Covid-19 on Migrant Essential Workers in the UK: Policy recommendations. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Key research findings, pages 4-10. In Wright S (ed.) Mental Health, Welfare Conditionality and Employment support: Policy Recommendations and Key Findings. Report. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Robertson, Laura, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Bailey, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Policy recommendations, pages 1-3. In Wright S (ed.) Mental Health, Welfare Conditionality and Employment support: Policy Recommendations and Key Findings. Report. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Bailey, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Analysis Protocol: Constructions of Mental Health and Problematic Alcohol Use Within UK’s Health and Welfare Policy. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Stewart, Alasdair B.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5210-4766, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226, Bailey, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Wright, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052 (2020) Lived Experiences of Mental Health Problems and Welfare Conditionality. Working Paper. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Flynn, Moya and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2017) Intimate Migrations Final Report - Appendix 2: Recommendations from Second Consultation Event. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 and Flynn, Moya (2016) Intimate Migrations: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Migrants in Scotland. Project Report. GRAMNet, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Website

Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435 and Gawlewicz, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0620-3226 (2015) Intimate Migrations: lesbian, gay, bisexual migrants in Scotland. Project website. [Website]

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Grants

Leverhulme Trust Grant 'Living Brexit in rural Britain: Migration and rural communities' as Co-Investigator with Prof. Sarah Neal (University of Sheffield, England) and Dr Jesse Heley and Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones (Aberystwyth University, Wales). Duration: Jan 2023 - Dec 2024. Value of award: £171,557. Click for project website.

The University of Sydney - University of Glasgow Ignition Grant 'Housing precarity for migrants and vulnerable households: A comparative perspective on policy challenges and opportunities' as Glasgow Chief Investigator with Dr Sophia Maalsen and Dr Zahra Nasreen (University of Sydney, Australia). Duration: Aug 2023 - Jun 2024. Value of award: AUD 36,925 (approx. £19,200). 

Economic and Social Research Council/UKRI Covid-19 Grant 'Health, social, economic and cultural impacts of Covid-19 on migrant essential workers in the UK' as Co-Investigator with Prof. Sharon Wright and Dr Paulina Trevena (University of Glasgow, Scotland) and Dr Kasia Narkowicz (Middlesex University, England) and Dr Aneta Piekut (University of Sheffield, England). Duration: Nov 2020 - May 2023. Value of award: £253,982. Click for project website.

ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Grant 'Migrant essential workers in the UK - Portable multi-arts exhibition' as Principal Investigator with Dr Paulina Trevena and Prof. Sharon Wright (University of Glasgow, Scotland) as well as Dr Aneta Piekut (University of Sheffield, England) and Dr Kasia Narkowicz (Middlesex University, England). Duration: Nov 2021 - Oct 2022. Value of award: £20,127.

Scottish Government Expert Review Grant 'Addressing the needs of Scotland’s migrant and minority ethnic populations under Covid-19: Lessons for the future' as Co-Investigator with Dr Paulina Trevena and Prof. Sharon Wright (University of Glasgow, Scotland). Duration: May 2022 - Oct 2022. Value of award: £29,994.

Regional Studies Association Network Grant 'Postdependence Geographies in Central and Eastern Europe (PostCEE)' as Co-Organiser with Dr Kasia Narkowicz (Middlesex University, England) and Dr Konrad Pędziwiatr (Cracow University of Economics, Poland). Duration: Jan 2020 - Jan 2023. Value of award: £10,000. Click for network website. 

Supervision

  • Fetrat, Mohammad Anwar
    Research Topic: The role of local government in SDGs implementation: A case of Glasgow city, with special focus on the potential and limits of SDG 11 to support migrant communities.

Teaching

Convenor

Postgraduate

  • URBAN5136: Migration Policy Making in Times of Hostile Environment
  • URBAN5080 and URBAN5054: Urban Studies Dissertation (with Dr Bilge Serin)

Contributor

Postgraduate

  • URBAN5093: Understanding Public Policy

Undergraduate

  • PUBPOL4040: Making Public Policy 
  • PUBPOL4041: Work, Welfare and the Politics of Reform

Research datasets

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Number of items: 3.

2023

Piekut, A., Gawlewicz, A. , Narkowicz, K., Wright, S. , Trevena, P. and Le, T. P. L. (2023) Polish Migrant Essential Workers in the UK during COVID-19: Survey Data, 2021. [Data Collection]

Piekut, A., Gawlewicz, A. , Narkowicz, K., Wright, S. , Trevena, P. and Linh Le, T. P. (2023) Polish Migrant Essential Workers in the UK during COVID-19: Survey Metadata, 2021. [Data Collection]

Wright, S. , Gawlewicz, A. , Narkowicz, K., Piekut, A. and Trevena, P. (2023) Polish Migrant Essential Workers in the UK during COVID-19: Qualitative Data, 2021. [Data Collection]

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Additional information

Websites

Rural Brexit project: Brexit, migration, community relations, rural areas in England, Scotland and Wales

Migrant Essential Workers project: Covid-19, migration, essential work and Poles in the UK

Living Together project: Brexit, migration, community relations and the East End of Glasgow

PostCEE network: postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe

 

Peer reviewing

Web of Science: my verified journal article reviews

I am a member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College.

 

Professional memberships

I am a member of the International Migration Research Network (IMISCOE). In previous years, I was also a member of the Regional Studies Association, the American Association of Geographers, and the British Sociological Association.


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