Fragmented Lives in Times of War : Displacement Within and from Ukraine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuzemska, Lidia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internally displaced persons.

Forced migration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2026.

Summary:

What are the challenges faced by forced migrants within and from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion?The interdisciplinary contributors shed light on the lives of displaced persons, which are divided in terms of time, space, and social context into a »before« and »after« the war.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction. Fragmented Lives in Times of War

The Rationale of the Dossier

Fragmented Lives

Uncertainties and Displacement

Uncertainties of War Displacement within and from Ukraine

Overview of Fragmented Lives in Times of War

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

"Displaced" as a Label, Not an Identity for Internally Displaced Ukrainian Women

Identity, Labeling, and Displacement

Internal Displacement in Ukraine

Methodology

Findings

Disoriented Sense of Self

"Pereselenka" as an Imposed Label

"Ukrainian" as Self‐Identification

Discussion and Conclusion

References

The Voluntary Immobility among Women in Ukraine

Introduction

Theoretical Framework

Voluntary Immobility

Voluntary Immobility and Approaches to Grouping Motives for Immobility

Social Action as the Theoretical Framework of this Study

Motives for Voluntary Immobility among Ukrainian Women Grouped According to the Theory of Social Action

To Live in Ukraine: Traditional Action

Affective Action: A Choice Influenced by Emotions

Value‐Based Motives for Staying in Ukraine

Rational Motives for Living in Ukraine

Conclusion

Navigating the Temporal Dissonance of Displacement

Theoretical Approach

Legal Temporalities

Institutional Temporalities

Lived Temporalities

Conclusions

Violence, Uncertainty and Agency in the Narratives of Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Lithuania

Ethnography and the Phenomenology of Violence and Displacement

Methodology and Methods

Embodied Experiences of Violence

Extended Uncertainty in the Host Society

Belonging and Agency

Final Remarks

References.

Digital Connections of Ukrainian Forced Migrants with Family and Homeland in Times of War

Research Methodology

Principal Results

Receiving Information About Events in Ukraine

Connection with Ukraine Through Family Relationships

Displaced Ukrainian Mothers

Conceptual Framework

Findings and Discussion

The Material and Practical Dimensions of Maternal Practices of Caregiving

The Maternal Practices of Personal Caregiving: Issues of Healthcare and Access to Quality Medical Care

Maternal Practices of Practical Caregiving: Children's Education and Dual Schooling as Maternal Achievements

Maternal Practices of Emotional and Moral Caregiving

Maternal Practices of Accommodation (Shelter and Security) and Future Life Prospects

Maternal Identities through the Prism of the Implementation of Maternal Practices

The Maternal Multitasking of Forced Migrant Women as "Resistance in the Rear"

Returning to the Past?

Discussion

Research Design and Methodology

Summary Fieldwork Impressions and Survey Description

Typology of Refugee Return Decision‐states

Categories of Refugee Decision‐making States

Refugees Accepting a Chosen Trajectory

Denying Refugees

Pragmatic Refugees

Limbo‐Lingering Refugees

Implications and Conclusion

Diasporisation, Dediasporisation, and Rediasporisation in the Context of a Homeland War

Research Process and Methodology

Conceptual Framework: From Diaspora to (Re)diasporisation

Ukrainian Diaspora Organisations in Germany before 2022

Ukrainian Diaspora Organisations in Germany since 2022

The Dediasporisation Phenomenon, or "I Tried to be as German as Possible".

Rediasporisation, or Rediscovering the "Inner Ukrainian"

Concluding Remarks

Rifts and Dissonances in Displaced Ukrainians' Memories about the War

Three Collections of Interviews from the Prisma Ukraїna Archive

Corpus‐based Analysis of Word Frequency

Exploration of Selected Fragments of Memory Narratives

Powerful Anxiety and the Lack of Words

The Before‐After Rift in the Flow from Then to Now

The Before‐After Rift in Inner Life

The Before‐After Rift in Relationships

The Deterioration of Attitudes towards Russians

Warming of Attitudes towards Poles and Germans

The Echoes of Former Confrontations

Traces of Silenced Scars in the Collective Memory of Ukrainians

Gratitude, Solidarity and Optimism versus Anxiety

Authors

Dossiers.

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ISBN:

9783839477427

OCLC:

1611797807