The power of nationalism is evident in how people perceive the world around them as ‘normal’. A national normality is constituted through education and media but also in everyday encounters with the state or state-regulated institutions in the fields of education, welfare provisions, medical care, finance and others. When people migrate between countries, their sense of ‘normality’ can become disturbed. Migration might impact how people think of their relationship to the state and its institutions. This article is based on analysis of 120 interviews with Polish migrants in the UK and Germany. It asks if migration creates a ‘post-national situation’ in which national categories are questioned and negotiated anew. The contexts of Poland, which is undergoing a return to conservative national identity, the UK and its struggle over Brexit, and Germany in its claim to European leadership, provide an instructive case for the discussion of intersections between nationalism and post-nationalism.

民族主义的力量在人们如何看待周围的世界是“正常的”方面是显而易见的。国家常态性是通过教育和媒体建立的，但也包括在教育，福利规定，医疗保健，金融等领域与国家或国家管制机构的日常交往中。当人们在国家之间迁移时，他们的“常态”感可能会受到干扰。移民可能会影响人们对与国家及其机构之间关系的看法。本文基于对英国和德国120位波兰移民的采访进行的分析。它询问移民是否会造成“民族后局势”，在这种情况下对民族类别进行重新质疑和谈判。波兰正在恢复保守的民族认同，英国及其在脱欧方面的斗争，