On the 10th of April 2026 Alina Cristea, Melanie Kurek and Elisabeth Scheibelhofer presented a paper at the Annual BSA (British Sociological Association) Conference. The presentation, titled “Not Fully Seen, Not Fully White: Rethinking Passing in the Context of Eastern European Migration,” examined how Romanian migrants in Austria are positioned within graded forms of ‚whiteness‘ tied to hierarchies of Europeanness, resulting in unequal recognition and conditional belonging. Drawing on literature on ambiguous racialisation, our presentation focused on situational strategies of passing as ‚fully white‘ and on how claims to acceptance and social membership are negotiated in everyday life.