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Sheltering Strangers : Critical Memoirs from Hosting Ukrainian Refugees.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Briggs, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (159 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- This book documents the intimate lives of Ukrainians as they fled their homeland in search of a safe and stable place to stay. The critical memoirs follow the lives of 16 Ukrainian families in a small Spanish town near Madrid and the local families that volunteered to host them during a time of limited state support and an absence of a clear EU plan for the refugees. Through first-hand testimonies, social media messages and photographs, the book reveals the scarring realities of the Ukrainians’ upheaval, displacement and trauma alongside the well-meaning sacrifices made by the host families which quickly mutate into moralistic and meritocratic expectations of their new guests. In doing so, the book offers a vivid portrayal of how the tensions of war and displacement play out in real life in real time.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Sheltering Strangers: Critical Memoirs from Hosting Ukrainian Refugees
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The end at the beginning
- Russia and Ukraine: a brief history
- The wider geopolitical, structural, cultural and subjective contexts for this unexpected study
- Researcher, activist, supporter?
- The aims of this book
- Notes
- 2 Escaping the 'occupiers'
- From pre-occupation to preoccupation: barrage, bombing and bloodshed
- Exodus
- Why hosting?
- Becoming hosts
- Website
- 3 'We are not refugees! We are occupiers!'
- Welcome to Spain!
- Oksana, Maksym, Nastia and Masha
- Learning from the new live-.in neighbours
- Poor refugee versus forced migrant
- Servant of the People
- Kharkiv, further arrivals and the expanding host network
- 4 Work, study and cultural integration
- Making existence formal
- War games
- First day at school
- Online struggles lost to more pressing matters -. Nastia
- Prestigious hope, false promises -. Masha
- Between the nooks and crannies
- Learning to suffer
- Crude realities and childcare duties
- Solidifying solidarity: Spanish classes and protest marches
- The Brunete Ukrainian Refugee Association?
- 5 Strained relations and trending 'solidarity'
- Reshuffles
- Cultural events and mayoral attention
- Meeting Belén and Enrique
- Ukrainian parties
- The cost for living versus the cost of living
- Mutating moralism and strained relations
- Trending solidarity
- 6 Pastures new and war sirens old
- Crisis of solidarity in the Eurozone
- No country for young women (or their children) -. Alicia and Bea
- Speeding but all fine -. Yana
- Holding out -. Karina and Katya
- Pastures new
- War sirens old
- Anya's crisis
- 7 In search of Slava Ukra.ni.
- The future for Europe and the refugee influx
- Makeshift saviours
- To open arms and closed opportunities
- Dead ends
- Failed counteroffensive
- Oksana's cause
- Brighter sky, darker city
- Family fulcrum
- Mayoral re-.election and precarious work top-.up
- Alicia's holiday and Alberto's distant memories of the Ukrainians
- Yana's predicament
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781447373629
- 1447373626
- 9781447373636
- 1447373634
- OCLC:
- 1509443058
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