Trans-local Lives: Class, Gender and Rurality in post-2004 Migration between Ireland and Poland

Natalia Mazurkiewicz was born in Kraków, Poland. She holds an MA degree in Journalism and Social Communication from Jagiellonian University in her home city. In 2006, Mazurkiewicz emigrated to Ireland where she spent nine years. She obtained an MA in Gender Studies at the University of Limerick and subsequently enrolled for PhD in Sociology. Her dissertation focused on migration between Ireland and Poland – a new phenomenon on a massive scale which she felt she was a part of and wanted to explore its nuances. The research was funded by the Irish Research Council. This book is a product of many years of intensive research and being an immigrant. In 2015, after receiving her doctorate and Natalia Mazurkiewicz went back to Kraków where she still lives today. Being a (former) migrant transformed by perception of the world and people around herself, she did not choose academia as her career but in 2017, she started a business in Kraków. Natalia’s firm promotes creative education and the vision behind it entails everything that she had learnt during her own experience of transnational mobility. She maintains an active connection with both Jagiellonian University and the University of Limerick being an associate researcher with Gender Arc at UL.