Izabela Koryś

Curriculum vitae

Born: 1973, Poland

Education and qualifications

• 1998 - Summer Training Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, MI, USA;

• 1998 - The Florian Znaniecki Prize of the Polish Sociological Society for the best Master Dissertation of the year;

• 1997 - M.A. in Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University.

Posts held

• Since 2008 - Associate Member, Central European Forum for Migration and Population Research (CEFMR), Warsaw, Poland;

• 2002-2008 - Researcher, CEFMR;

• 2002 - Project coordinator, Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, Poland;

• 2001-2003 - Lecturer, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, Poland;

• 1997-2003 - Lecturer, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University;

• 1997 - visiting fellow, Plater College, Oxford University, UK;

• Project coordinator in the international project Programme Odysseus - Etude methodologique de l'imigration de transit e de rebond a partir d'un fux type, les turcs.

Research experience

Experience in designing and conducting empirical research (different research methods, i.e. structured interview, in-depth interview, focused group interview) also applied to migration studies, sociology and social psychology, methodology of social science.

Professional activities

Member of the European Association of Population Studies (EAPS).

Research interests

• International migration;

• Integration of migrants with the host society;

• Methodology of social science (application of research techniques in migration studies);

• Content and discourse analysis, semiotics;

• Sociology of family.

Selected publications

• 2007

  • Koryś I. (2007), Między instrumentalnym a symbolicznym wymiarem posiadania drugiego obywatelstwa [Second citizenship in Instrumental and Symbolic Perspective], [in:] A.Górny, P. Koryś (eds.), Obywatelstwo wielokrotnego wyboru [Multiple Choice Citizenship], Migration Studies Series, Warsaw: University of Warsaw: 92-115 [in Polish].

• 2006

  • Koryś I., 2006. Między instrumentalnym a symbolicznym wymiarem posiadania drugiego obywatelstwa [Between the instrumental and symbolic dimensions of having a multiple citizenship], CEFMR Working Paper 5/2006.

  • Bijak J., Koryś I., 2006. Statistics or reality? International migration in Poland, CEFMR Working Paper 3/2006.

• 2005

  • Koryś I., Antoniewski R., 2005. "Kraj perspektyw realnych" - migranci zarobkowi o swoim życiu i pracy w Polsce ["A country of real perspectives" - labour migrants about their life and work in Poland], Przegląd Polonijny 117 (3): 77-100.

  • Koryś I., 2005. Country Report of Poland, [in:] Dimensions of Integration: Migrant Youth in Central European Countries, IOM, Vienna: 147-182. Full report available from the IOM Vienna Website. Also available under the title Dimensions of Integration: Migrant Youth in Poland, CEFMR Working Paper 3/2005.

• 2004

  • Koryś I., 2004. Irregular Migration. The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility, by B. Jordan and F. Düvell (review), Geographia Polonica 77 (1): 104-108.

  • Koryś I., 2004. The impact of migration in Poland with reference to the EU accession. Research report from the CEFMR project S02 under the same title. CEFMR, Warsaw.

  • Koryś I., 2004. Poland - Dilemmas of a Sending and Receiving Country, Migration Trends in Selected EU Applicant Countries, Vol. III, IOM, Vienna. Report available from the IOM Website.

• 2003

  • Koryś I., 2003. Migration Trends in Selected EU Applicant Countries: Poland, CEFMR Working Paper 5/2003.

• 2002

  • Koryś I., 2002. Rola czynników strukturalnych w funkcjonowaniu imigrantów o nieuregulowanym statusie: analiza wywiadów pogłębionych z migrantami z Afryki, Wietnamu oraz byłych republik ZSSR (Structural Factors Influencing Irregular Migrats in Receiving Country: an analysis of semi-structured in-depth interviews with migrants from Africa, Vietnam and former USSR countries) [in:] Antoniewski R., Koryś I.: Imigranci o nieuregulowanym statusie: społeczne i ekonomiczne aspekty funkcjonowania w Polsce (Irregular Migrants: Socio-economic Aspects of Functioning in Poland), ISS UW Working Paper nr 47.

  • Koryś I., 2002. W pół drogi - specyfika migracji powrotnych z Niemiec ('Half-way' - Return Migrations from Germany) [in:] K. Iglicka (ed.) Migracje powrotne Polaków. Powroty sukcesu czy rozczarowania? (Poles' Return Migrations: Returns of hope or despair?). Warszawa: Instytut Spraw Publicznych.

• 2000

  • Koryś I., 2000. Mam na imię Zbyszek, jestem domatorem: podstawowe komponenty tożsamości społecznych (My Name is Zbyszek, I'm a Stay-at-home: crucial factors of collective identity) [in:] M. Marody (ed.) Między rynkiem a etatem (Between Market and Full-time Post), Warszawa: Scholar.

  • Koryś I., 2000. Ustrukuryzowany wywiad pogłębiony (Semi-structured in-depth interview) [in:] R. Antoniewski, A. Górny, I. Koryś, A. Kosmala: Z zastosowań technik jakościowych w badaniach nad migracjami: doświadczenia OBM (Practical Implementation of Qualitative Research Methods in Migration Studies: experiences of Center for Migration Research), ISS UW Working Paper nr 38.

  • Koryś I., Żuchaj O. 2000. Turkish Migratory Flows to Poland: General Description [in:] Etude methodologique de l'imigration de transit et de rebond a partir d'un fux type, les turcs. Paris: Institute des Hautes Etudes de la Securite Interieure.

• 1999

  • Koryś I., 1999. Chłopiec do bicia: krytyka mass mediów w świetle koncepcji Johna Thompsona (The Whipping Boy: Critics of Mass Media According to the Works of John B. Thompson), Kultura i Społeczeństwo, vol. XLIII, no 3, 1999, pp. 103-119.