1st Edition
Bordering and Mobilities in Ukraine Inconvenient People in the Time of War
Chapter 1: Understanding displacement, immobility, and bordering in Ukraine
Chapter 2: Fleeing, staying, and in-between: forced mobilities since 2014
Chapter 3: The Unseen Struggles of Older Adults and People with Disabilities in both the Occupied Territories and During Displacement
Chapter 4: The bordering and de-bordering of Donetsk: politics of re-de-commemoration and everyday resistance
Chapter 5: The loss of home: navigating housing through displacement
Chapter 6: Agents of Change: Volunteering in the Face of the War and Displacement
Chapter 7: Living through violence: (invisible) trauma and the changing of mental health approaches
Chapter 8: There is not yet a conclusion
Biography
Irina Kuznetsova is Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She has extensively researched the social impacts of displacement from Ukraine’s war-affected regions and led the UK Art and Humanities Research Council -funded Ukraine’s Hidden Tragedy project. With over 25 years of experience in migration, immobility, and social exclusion across countries, she brings a cross-disciplinary, impact-driven approach to collaborative research, particularly in understanding both internal and international dimensions of war and conflict- related displacement.
Oksana Mikheieva is Professor of Sociology at the Kyiv School of Economics. During her work at various academic institutions, including Donetsk State University of Management, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), as well as during research fellowships at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (HURI), Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), ZOiS/the Centre for East European and International Studies, and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute for Advanced Study, she researched various aspects of migration processes related to war and forced displacement. She also focuses her research on aspects of paramilitary motivations, everyday life under conditions of war and occupation.
