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Odolczyk M. (2025). Addressing Gender-Specific Needs: The Governance of Integration of Refugee Women in Warsaw. Central and Eastern European Migration Review 14(1): 101-120. doi: 10.54667/ceemr.2025.09
Abstract
The nexus between immigrant integration and gender has primarily been studied in the context of Western European countries with a long tradition of migration. However, there is a clear gap in research on the integration of immigrant women in the context of CEE. Using discourse around and the implementation of immigrant integration policies as they include/exclude gender-sensitive content in the capital city of Poland, this article shifts the perspective to the localised CEE context and bridges the theoretical and empirical gaps. The study developed in two stages. The first stage included policy analysis of 9 governmental documents or directives related to immigrant integration; the second included fieldwork consisting of 12 in-depth interviews with representatives of NGOs, employees of local administration and migration scholars, conducted between May and August 2024. All interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed. The results indicate that the gender-specific needs of refugee women are mainly addressed through NGO-run programmes, as opposed to public administration programmes, which favour a mainstreaming approach. Unlike in the Western European discourse, gender is used to distinguish deserving from non-deserving refugees, although not as a part of a national identity.
