Between Resistance and Submission: Doing Gender in the Polish Catholic Missions in Sweden

• In Event: Re-thinking Polish Catholic Approaches to Gender, Sexuality and Reproduction: Local and Transnational Perspectives, Past and Present

Abstract

Polish Catholic Mission organizations (PCMs) operate in numerous European countries, supporting Polish migrants, enhancing the integration of migrant communities and strengthening bonds with the Polish Catholic Church, as well as Polish culture and society. At the same time, PCMs are often based in countries that are far more secular and multicultural than Poland. This position in complex and often contradictory transnational contexts while remaining embedded in the Polish setting provides an interesting case through which to study (re)constructions of gender within these religious organizations. This paper explores these issues in the multicultural and egalitarian context of Sweden.

Author

• Katarzyna Zielińska, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University