B. Nadya Jaworsky
Visiting 吃瓜直播
Winter 2026
Research focus while a CERC Scholar
B. Nadya Jaworsky's current interests lie in the decentring of migration studies, which involves pursuing a conversation between the analytical lenses of decoloniality and critical cultural sociology. As a CERC Migration Scholar of Excellence, she will theorize this relationship and explore the ways in which it can be applied to a range of topics regarding migration. In addition, she will expand the concept of a "reverse sociology" of migration, as pioneered in their latest migration study, with a focus on making migrants the "mainstream" of research attention.
Career achievements
Nadya's current research project People Like Us? A Reverse Sociology of Migration in Czechia examines how people who have come to Czechia from abroad engage in symbolic boundary work when imagining what 鈥減eople like us鈥� means to them. Her prior work explored symbolic boundary work among the Czech public with regard to their attitudes towards migration.
She has published extensively in books, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed journals on the topics of migration and cultural sociology. Her books include A Critical Cultural Sociological Exploration of Attitudes toward Migration in Czechia: What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant, Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice, and The Boundaries of Belonging: Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations.
Nadya is the director of the Center for the Cultural Sociology of Migration, established in 2017 at Masaryk University, and Faculty Fellow at Yale University鈥檚 Center for Cultural Sociology.
Relevant publications
Jaworsky, B. N., Klva艌ov谩, R., & Rapo拧 Bo啪i膷, I. (forthcoming). 鈥淚ncorporating urban residents鈥� perspectives into multilevel governance theories of migration: A case study of Brno.鈥� In Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015. Edited by Karolina 艁ukasiewicz, Marta Pachocka, and Micha艂 Nowosielski. IMISCOE Book Series, Springer Publishing.
Bozic, I. R., Klva艌ov谩, R., & Jaworsky, B. N. (2025). You can't take it to heart: How Czech residents from MENA and sub-Saharan Africa make sense of ethnoracial othering. Cultural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755251336818
Jaworsky, B. N. (2024). Connecting with connected migrants: Exploring the field of digital migration studies. In Research handbook on the sociology of migration (pp. 243-257). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Jaworsky, B. N., Klva艌ov谩, R., & Sidiropulu Jank暖, K. (2024). 鈥業 always felt i have something i must do in my life鈥�: Meaning making in the political lives of refugee non-citizens. Identities, 31(2), 218-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2023.2189374
Jaworsky, B. N., Klva艌ov谩, R., Rapo拧 Bo啪i膷, I., R茅tiov谩, A., & Krotk媒, J. (2023). A critical cultural sociological exploration of attitudes toward migration in Czechia: What lies beneath the fear of the thirteenth migrant. Lexington Books.
Rapo拧 Bo啪i膷, I., Klva艌ov谩, R., & Jaworsky, B. N. (2023). Foreigner, migrant, or refugee? How laypeople label those who cross borders. Migration Studies, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnac035
Jaworsky, B. N., R茅tiov谩, A., & Binder, W. (2022). 鈥榃hat do we see when we look at people on the move鈥�? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory. Visual Studies, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2145990
Shmidt, V., & Jaworsky, B. N. (2022). The Ukrainian refugee 鈥渃risis鈥� and the (re) production of whiteness in Austrian and Czech public politics. Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics, 16(02), 104-130.
Jaworsky, B. N., R茅tiov谩, A., & Binder, W. (2022). 鈥榃hat do we see when we look at people on the move鈥�? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory. Visual Studies, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2145990
Tognato, C., Jaworsky, B. N., & Alexander, J. C. (Eds.). (2021). The courage for civil repair. Narrating the righteousness in international migration. Palgrave Macmillan.