MIMY EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions
MIMY EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions
MIMY (EMpowerment through liquid Integration of Migrant Youth in vulnerable conditions) is an EU-funded project aiming to improve the situation of young migrants throughout Europe. In order to derive evidence-based policy recommendations, we will examine the effectiveness of integration policies in an interdisciplinary research endeavour. Specifically, MIMY sets out to investigate the integration processes of young non-EU migrants who find themselves in vulnerable conditions across 18 case studies, 2 in each of the 9 countries involved in the consortium (Luxembourg, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Hungary). Each case study is meant to represent a specific local context, but may also target a specific subgroup of young migrants in vulnerable conditions.
Most importantly, MIMY will put the experiences of young migrants at the centre of its activities by directly involving tchem as peer researchers through participatory research. Young migrants in vulnerable conditions are a group that is at high risk to be exposed to exclusionary practices of individuals, local social processes, institutions, and policies.
Team
- Prof. Dr. Izabela Grabowska – Leader
- Dr. Agata Jastrzebowska – Post-Doc
- Dominika Winogrodzka, Ivanna Kyliushyk – Research Assistants (on the side of SWPS University)
Full Professor of Social Sciences Department of Economics
CRASH Center For Research on Social Change and Human Mobility
Prof. Izabela Grabowska, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Professor of Social Sciences, sociologist, and economist. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warsaw, an M.A. in Economics from University College Dublin, and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Wrocław. Her professorial proceedings in social sciences were conducted by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN). She is a recipient of the Foundation for Polish Science Fellowship and has held research fellowships at Humboldt University in Berlin (ERC grant), Utrecht University (visiting professor), and University College London (visiting scholar).
She has supervised seven completed Ph.D. dissertations and over 70 master's theses. Professor Grabowska is the author of more than 60 scholarly publications in prestigious international and Polish outlets. She has been awarded numerous competitive research grants, including Horizon Europe (as Scientific Coordinator of the global consortium for the Link4Skills project www.link4skills.eu), Horizon 2020 (MIMY project, as leader of the Polish team), and several major grants from the National Science Centre of Poland (OPUS, Sonata Bis www.mymigration.academy), Harmonia, and KBM). She is co-creator and first Principal Investigator of European University Alliance EUonAIR: AI in Curricula, Smart UniverCity and (Return) Mobility www.euonair.eu and mobility assessment dashboard www.mymobility.academy.
In 2021, she joined Kozminski University (ALK) as a member of the Department of Economics, where she founded and now leads the CRASH Center (Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility).
Between 2005 and 2021, she served as assistant professor and university professor at SWPS University. From 2016 to 2021, she was Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at SWPS. She also established and led two major research initiatives: the Youth Research Center / Youth in the Centre Lab (2015–2019) and the Mobility Research Group (2020–2021).
Her research focuses on labor markets, human capital, international labor migration, and careers. Her long-term studies emphasize the role of international work experience in shaping human capital, especially social competences, and explore the dynamics of social remittances in transnational contexts. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Work, Employment and Society, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, International Migration, and Social Policy and Society. Her books have appeared with key academic publishers including Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, UCL Press, Amsterdam University Press, and Scholar.
From 2008 to 2019, she was actively involved in the governance of IMISCOE, the largest European research network on migration and integration. Since 2009, she has served as an expert for the European Commission on the European Mobility Partnership/Laboratory and ESCO (European Classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations), and currently contributes to the Employment Labour Agency and EURES. For over a decade, she has provided training through EY (Bologna, Brussels) for public employment services across Europe.
More about her work can be found at: www.izabelagrabowska.org
- Grabowska, I., Lind, J., Powell, R., Jastrzebowska, A., Hansen, C., Nienaber, B., Manafi, I., & Shahrokh, T. (forthcoming). Young migrants, “integration” and the local: Critical reflections from European stakeholders.
- Grabowska, I. (2023). Societal dangers of migrant crisis narratives with a special focus on Belarussian and Ukrainian borders with Poland. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 1084732. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2022.1084732/full