Cultural Heritage Participation Patterns of Ukrainians in Poland and Poles in Norway

This report presents findings from an MSCA-funded project Cultural Heritage Participation Patterns among Immigrants and Their Influence on Integration. The Case of Ukrainians in Poland and Poles in Norway (HerInt). First, it identifies and describes the patterns of participation in cultural heritage by migrants from Poland to Norway and from Ukraine to Poland – two European countries with different integration policy models, based on the data collected in qualitative photo-elicitation interviews. Secondly, it analyses the cultural policy of Norway and Poland from the perspective of the cultural inclusion of migrants, trying to understand how it could have influenced the cultural heritage participation patterns. Finally, it evaluates the relationship between cultural heritage participation patterns and migrants’ emplacement in their respective new homelands, based on the correlation of cultural heritage participation patterns and the emplacement index of the participants to the study. Overall, the report aims to bridge the gap between migration and heritage studies by addressing the relevance of cultural heritage participation patterns to the issues of migrants’ emplacement. Its goal is to deliver knowledge on the topic and initiate an interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial dialogue between migration and heritage scholars and cultural heritage stakeholders. The report ends with practical policy recommendations on including migrants through cultural heritage.

This project has received generous funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, grant agreement No 101059766.