Immersion in Ethics and Culture. Socially Engaged Anthropological Projects

In the practice of sociocultural anthropology, ethics is an important subject for Polish scholars, who more and more readily discuss the need for developing ethical standards regulating their research practice. Special attention in this respect should be paid to socially and practically engaged anthropological projects which, as the text proves, are above all “ethical”, that is focused, as a task in itself, on the goals and effects of researchers’ actions in specifi c environments. The objective of the text is to reflect on selected aspects of this type of anthropological activity. Its main source of inspiration were the experiences of scholars conducting research, undertaking specific actions on behalf of immigrants and refugees, and entering into negotiations with offi cials – persons from the broadly defi ned sphere of education. All the anthropologists involved in these activities are connected to the Poznań Centre for Migration Studies (Centrum Badań Migracyjnych, CeBaM) and the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, as is the author of the text, and participated in the project: Social and Cultural Identification of Foreigners