Agnieszka Weinar

Adjunct Research Professor – International Migration Policy and Europeanization of migration policies in the EU

• Ph.D (University of Warsaw, Poland)
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Agnieszka Weinar

Research Interests European migration policy and politics; Central and Eastern Europe societies; migration in Europe and Americas; migrant integration; diaspora and nationalism; mobility governance, including trade agreements; migration governance; justice and home affairs; EU-Canada relations on JHA issues.

I am interested in co-supervising MA thesis that engage with the above themes.

Current  and Recent Positions

• Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS), Carleton University (2016-)
• Research Fellow and Scientific Coordinator at the European University Institute, Florence Italy (2011-2017)
• Visiting Scholar at the Institute of European and Russian Studies (EURUS), Carleton University (2014-2016)
• Visiting Scholar at the Brussels School of International Studies, Kent University (2010-2011)
• Policy Officer at DG HOME, European Commission (2007-2010)
• Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw (2004-2007)
• Researcher at the Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw (2001-2008)

Current Research Projects Politics of immigration on the European continent

Selected Publications (last ten years)

Monographs

(2020) with Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Highly skilled Migrants: between Settlement and Mobility, IMISCOE Reader on Highly Skilled migration, Springer (peer reviewed)

(2019) Europe Outside Europe? European citizenship and identity outside of the European Union, Routledge Research Monographs (peer reviewed)

Edited works

(2026) with Laura Clenton, Nahikari Irastorza, and Lyubov Zhyznomirska, Routledge Handbook of Politics of Migration in Europe, Routledge, 2^nd edition.

(2019) with Amanda Klekowski-von Koppenfels, Emigrants or mobile citizens? Migration in the global North, Special Section of International Migration (peer-reviewed)

(2019) with Saskia Bonjour and Lyubov Zhyznomirska, Routledge Handbook of Politics of Migration in Europe, Routledge.

(2017) editor, Diaspora and emigration policies in the age of mobility, Springer.

(2017) co-editor with Philippe Fargues and Anne Unterreiner, Migrant integration between Homeland and Host Society: where does the country of origin fit? Springer.

Journal Articles

(2025) “Book Review: Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia.”, International Migration Review.

(2024) with Crina Viju-Miliusevic, “Gender in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement: Third-Generation Trade Agreement As a Gateway to Policy Coordination?” Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies 17 (1):26-48.

(2018) “Review of the Handbook of Global Migrations,” (invitation by the journal editor), Migration Studies, Oxford University.

(2018) with Amanda Klekowski-von Koppenfels, “Emigrants or mobile citizens? Migration in the global North – an Introduction,” Special Section of International Migration.

(2017) “From emigrants to free movers: wither European emigration policy?”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Jan 11:1-9

Chapters in books

(2018) “A knowledge-base for the EU external migration policy: the case of the CARIM observatories” in M. Ruhs, K. Tamas, J.Palme Bridging the gaps: Linking research to public debates and policy-making on migration and integration, Oxford University Press.

(2017) “EU cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs with Australia and Canada: new ties that bind?” in F. Trauner et al. eds. Routledge Handbook on Justice and Home Affairs, Routledge

(2017) with Sylvain Beck. “Mobile French Citizens and La Mère-Patrie: Emigration and Diaspora Policies in France.” In A. Weinar ed. Emigration and Diaspora Policies in the Age of Mobility, Springer

(2017) “Turkish and Russian experiences of integration in Germany,” with Jan Schneider, in Di Bartolomeo, A., Kalantaryan, S., Salamońska, J., Fargues, P. eds. Migrant Integration between Homeland and Host Society Volume 2, How countries of origin impact migrant integration outcomes: an analysis, Springer

(2017) “Governance of integration from the country of origin perspective,” with Maria Vincenza Desiderio and Cameron Thibos, in Fargues, Unterreiner, Weinar eds. From Home to Home? Integration as a three-way process, Springer.

(2017) “Cooperation on migration and the revised European Neighbourhood Policy,” in T. Schumacher and D. Bouris eds. The Revised European Neighbourhood Policy. Continuity and Change in EU Foreign Policy, Palgrave (peer-reviewed).