Auto-biographies of Ukrainian war refugees.
From forced migration to anchoring
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Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań, Poland
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Adam Mickiewicz
University in Poznań
Publication date: 2023-06-19
Studia Politologiczne 2023;68
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ABSTRACT
This article aims to present the Ukrainian war refugees’ experience. Twenty-one
interviews focused on autobiographical memoirs of Ukrainian war refugees were collected
during the field research project in Poland and Germany in the summer and autumn of
2022. The text aimed to point out the peculiarities of Ukrainian refugeeism in the context
of its specificity related to the evolution of the phenomenon of migration and forced
migration over recent years in Central Europe. The content was analyzed for the fleeing
and adaptive context of personal experience. It considers social ties, including family ties,
which appeared in the interviewees’ statements. The studied material insights into the
course of the war in Ukraine in 2022 from the perspective of civilians. It shows numerous
and diverse examples of survival and adaptation activities under armed attacks, during
the evacuation, border crossing, and anchoring in the places of their new residence. Due
to the dominance of women in the sample, these examples can contribute to the analysis
of the specificity of female migration, which differs from the previous profiles of economic
migration in the region.
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