Common Places Without Common Ground: Refugees in the Waiting Zone of Integration
Common Places Without Common Ground: Refugees in the Waiting Zone of Integration

Summary/Abstract: "Poland has seen the aftermath of wars and violent conflicts in recent years, which has resulted in a dramatic rise in the number of refugees entering Europe illegally. In my work, I looked at an extreme case: families with children who have experienced being refugees and have crossed the Polish-Belarusian border illegally from all over the world. The goal was to find out how to build theoretical and analytical categories for dealing with refugees within the pedagogical framework.There is a dearth of comprehensive qualitative study on the everyday behaviours of refugees, particularly those who remain in Poland during protracted asylum procedures, developing common spaces. Previous migration studies have concentrated on migration policy and assimilation. Unlike those under international protection, the study's participants continue to live in a situation of protracted legal ambiguity, making it impossible for them to find employment or engage fully in social activities. Their operation is characterized by structural exclusion and reliance on the institutional system, even though they are physically present in metropolitan areas. In this sense, the paper aims to provide answers to issues about how people in a state of ""liminality"" suspension create common spaces in urban surroundings, give meanings to them, and shape dialogical relationships in interactions with the social environment.The very nature of the behaviors under study led to the selection of the pedagogy of the common place as a theoretical framework: the observed activities allow for the examination of dialogicality, relationships, and the meanings of space, which enables the coupling of empirical data with theory. In addition to describing the respondents' experiences, the empirical data tests and demonstrates the pedagogy's theoretical presumptions."

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