TY - JOUR N2 - 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. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114550/PDF/N%23419-09-%C5%81uczaj.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/114550 PY - 2019 IS - No 4 EP - 151 DO - 10.24425/nauka.2019.131146 KW - universities in Poland KW - academic system KW - highly-skilled migrants KW - institutional work A1 - Łuczaj, Kamil PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2019.11.18 T1 - Language Departments, Labs, „Special units” and „Islands”. The Institutional Perspective in the Study of foreign-born academics SP - 129 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/114550 T2 - Nauka ER -