How Do Immigrants Become Civilizational Others? Or Othering Immigrants in Central European Immigration Crisis Narratives:: Some Thoughts on Boundary Drawing and Its Persistent Appeal in Times of Civilizational Identity .......... 95

Is a senior lecturer and former deputy director of the Jagiellonian University Institute of European Studies. He holds Ph.D. in Humanities from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University. His doctoral thesis analyzed the Polish raison d’état in light of European integration processes. His research focuses on sociology of power, international security in the Post-Cold War era, civil society and public sphere in Europe, democratic deficit and legitimacy crisis in the EU, symbolic construction of identity in the context of the EU Eastern enlargement. His recent publications focus on dilemmas of collective identity construction in an enlarging EU, collective memory in post-communist society, global asymmetry as a background for the emergence of the Post-Westphalian paradigm in the international relations, the EU as a global normative power and sociologization of security studies. He co-ordinates the Visegrad Network for Research and Academic mobility (VNDREAM) and Joint Master Degree in International Relations: Europe from the Visegrad Perspective.