Where Ethnoregionalism and Nationalism Meet. Poland and Upper Silesia

Data was gathered for our study by an external company (Biostat sp. z o.o. Centrum Badawczo-Rozwojowe) in 2021. All rights to data were transferred to the University of Silesia in Katowice (based on the agreement between parties). 

Method: survey (CAWI)

Both the dataset and the codebook are available.  

Abstract of the project

Three decades ago, political science and legal studies took almost no interest in a small region in Central Europe called Upper Silesia. Today, the scholarly literature in many disciplines is growing due, among other things, to the references to the situation of Silesians made by the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in the Fourth Opinion on Poland. However, most of those studies do not include analysis of the most important political context: ethnopolitics in the Republic of Poland, its past and present. In this project, we aim to explore the dynamic relations between Poles and Silesians and the consequences of those relations on public law and policy. We also analyse ethnic policy and memory policy in Poland in relation to Upper Silesia, especially in the context of Polish national identity.