The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in researching any type of total institutions. It will be useful for those researchers who work in hard-to-reach areas. Its readers will include academics working on the methodological concerns of the Social Sciences and all social actors in and around the guarded centres.
Dariusz Niedźwiedzki, associate professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His scientific interests include research on social identity, migration, social memory, social and cultural changes in the integrating Europe, and the relationship between culture and politics.
Jacek Schmidt, associate professor at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His areas of interest are: European migrations, methodology of the social sciences, border studies, stereotype- and myth-creating processes, and antisemitism.