Dr Dagmar Myslinska
Staff details
Dagmar convenes Contract Law and Immigration Law, supervises Immigration Policy Clinic, and serves as Director of Learning & Teaching. She served as the Senior Tutor during 2019-22. She is an Associate Fellow of the HEA and an expert for 'Britain in Europe' think-tank. She is currently working on a monograph, 'Law, Migration and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility within the European Union' (Routledge).
Prior to joining Goldsmiths, Dagmar taught at the LSE, at several programmes in the USA, including at Columbia Law School and Fordham University, and at Temple University in Tokyo. She is admitted to the New York and New Jersey state bars, and had practiced law at Debevoise & Plimpton and Boies Schiller & Flexner in NYC.
Dagmar completed a fully-funded PhD in law at the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Profs Nicola Lacey and Coretta Phillips, which critically examined Poles’ experience of mobility and their positioning within EU and UK equality frameworks.
Academic qualifications
- London School of Economics (PhD, law) 2019
- Columbia University School of Law (Juris Doctor, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) 2004
- Yale University (Bachelor of Arts) 1999
- Goldsmiths (Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) 2021
Teaching and Supervision
Research interests
Dagmar is keen to supervise PhD students in the area of her research, which intersects law, migration, and race/ethnicity studies. She’s especially interested in qualitative studies of equality, anti-discrimination or immigration laws (in the UK, US, or EU) that apply critical analytical frameworks (critical race studies, LatCrit, whiteness studies, outsider jurisprudence, or postcolonial studies). She welcomes interdisciplinary applications that engage with legal issues as well as sociology, politics, migration studies or history.
Publications and research outputs
Book
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2021. Law, Migration and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility within the European Union. UK: Routledge.
Article
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2021. Not Quite Right: Representations of Eastern Europeans in ECJ Discourse. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 34(3), pp. 271-307. ISSN 0891-4486
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2021. How immigration rules intended to tackle criminality have been unfairly used against highly skilled migrants from the Commonwealth. LSE Blog,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2020. Dawn of a New Immigration System: Broken Promises and Lack of Foresight. Public Sector Focus, NovDec(2020), pp. 54-55. ISSN 2396-8346
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2019. Retracing the Right to Free Movement: Mapping a Path Forward. Michigan State International Law Review, 27(3), pp. 383-439. ISSN 2328-3068
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2014. Contemporary First-Generation European-Americans: The Unbearable “Whiteness” of Being. Tulane Law Review, 88(3), pp. 559-625. ISSN 0041-3992
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2014. Racist Racism: Complicating Whiteness Through the Privilege & Discrimination of Westerners in Japan. UMKC Law Review, 83(1), pp. 1-55.
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2014. Intra-Group Diversity in Education: What If Abigail Fisher Were An Immigrant. . . Pace Law Review, 34(2), pp. 736-813. ISSN 0272-2410
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. Chances of Winning a Grant of Asylum. Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. Living Conditions in Immigration Detention Centers. Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. Preparing Persuasive Documents for Your Asylum Application. Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. Can I Still Apply for Asylum After the One-Year Filing Deadline? Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. What a "Particular Social Group" Means for Asylum Purposes. Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. How to Prepare an Affirmative Asylum Application. Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. How to Apply for a Work Permit While Awaiting an Asylum Decision. Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. Timing of the Affirmative Asylum Application Process. Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. What Will Happen at Your Master Calendar Hearing? Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2012. Can I Apply for Asylum With a Criminal Record? Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia,
Digital
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2020. Short-sighted, undemocratic, and not evidence-based: the new points-based system’s hostile approach towards Europeans.
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2016. Post-Brexit hate crimes against Poles are an expression of long-standing prejudices and contestation over white identity in the UK.
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2016. Migration Arguments Supporting Brexit Appear to be Backed by Animus.
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2016. Incomplete Europeans: Polish Migrants’ Experience of Discrimination in the UK is Complicated by Their Whiteness.
Report
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2020. EU Immigrants in the UK: Their Future under the Points-Based System. Other. Goldsmiths, University of London.
Further profile content
Featured publications
2022:
Law, Migration and the Construction of Whiteness: Mobility within the European Union
book (Routledge, forthcoming)
2020:
Not Quite Right: Representations of Eastern Europeans in ECJ Discourse.
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, ISSN 0891-4486
2019:
Retracing the Right to Free Movement: Mapping a Path Forward.
Michigan State International Law Review, 27(3), pp. 383-439. ISSN 2328-3068
2014:
Contemporary First-Generation European-Americans: The Unbearable “Whiteness” of Being.
Tulane Law Review, 88(3), pp. 559-625. ISSN 0041-3992
2014:
Racist Racism: Complicating Whiteness Through the Privilege & Discrimination of Westerners in Japan.
UMKC Law Review, 83(1), pp. 1-55.
Professional projects
Myslinska, Dagmar R. 2020. EU Immigrants in the UK: Their Future under the Points-Based System. Goldsmiths, University of London. https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29355/1/20200122_Policy%20document_EU%20Immigrants%20in%20the%20UK_v7_PJ%20(final%20w%20links).pdf
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Migration Research Network
Media engagements
2021:
How immigration rules intended to tackle criminality have been unfairly used against highly skilled migrants from the Commonwealth.
LSE British Politics and Policy
2020:
Dawn of a New Immigration System: Broken Promises and Lack of Foresight.
Public Sector Focus, NovDec(2020), pp. 54-55. ISSN 2396-8346
2020:
Short-sighted, undemocratic, and not evidence-based: the new points-based system’s hostile approach towards Europeans.
LSE Brexit
2016:
Post-Brexit hate crimes against Poles are an expression of long-standing prejudices and contestation over white identity in the UK.
LSE Brexit
2016:
Migration Arguments Supporting Brexit Appear to be Backed by Animus.
LSE Brexit
2016:
Incomplete Europeans: Polish Migrants’ Experience of Discrimination in the UK is Complicated by Their Whiteness.
LSE Brexit
Conferences and talks
2021:
The Future of Immigration: Creating an Efficient Immigration Policy & Effective Border (Public Policy Exchange)
EU Migrants in the UK under the new Points-Based System
2021:
COVID-19 and the Re-bordering of the World (Goldsmiths, Migration Mobilities and Displacement Research Stream)
Central and Eastern European Migrants in the Uk and Covid
