@ARTICLE{Łuczaj_Kamil_Language_2019, author={Łuczaj, Kamil}, number={No 4}, journal={Nauka}, pages={129-151}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN}, abstract={The main purpose of this paper is to describe the specificity of Polish academic institutions that employ foreign-born scholars. The empirical material comes from a two-year research project, involving 100 qualitative in-depth interviews with “international” employees and additional 20 with their Polish colleagues, mainly supervisors. The study demonstrated that the organizational units of universities and research institutes employing foreign-born scholars could be divided into four basic types: language departments, “special units” (focused on international cooperation or advanced studies), laboratories, and the “islands.” An additional category is composed of the centers where the academic staff shortage is a serious problem, but this category, unlike the others, is likely to be seriously affected by the ongoing higher education reform. The article adopts a neo-institutional perspective, which enables to analyze these types of units in terms of institutional work (including construction of normative networks, defining, vesting), done by the foreign-born employees.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Language Departments, Labs, „Special units” and „Islands”. The Institutional Perspective in the Study of foreign-born academics}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114550/PDF/N%23419-09-%C5%81uczaj.pdf}, doi={10.24425/nauka.2019.131146}, keywords={universities in Poland, academic system, highly-skilled migrants, institutional work}, }