Full Description
This book analyses how war and bordering impacts daily life and mobility and immobility tactics. It brings to light the memories of people who were displaced from Ukraine's eastern regions because of Russian aggression against Ukraine started in 2014.
Based on extensive in-depth research including interviews with individuals who were direct witnesses, participants, and victims of the events in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the study presents a novel perspective. It explores everyday experiences of war, bordering, and (im)mobilities through the lens of 'inconvenient people' including their hard journeys and resistance in occupied territories, the loss of home and struggles to find housing, volunteering, and the traumatic responses. The book amplifies the voices and agency of civilians experienced the war and displacement, including older adults and people with disabilities and provides theoretical and practical implications beyond Ukraine in a context of global uncertainties and growing mass population displacement.
The book urges politicians and experts to look at the experiences of both displaced and immobile people who lived through the war in Ukraine before the full invasion. It will be of great interest to scholars of Race and Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies, European Politics, Security Studies, Migration Studies, Human Geography and War and Conflict Studies.
Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding displacement, immobility and bordering in Ukraine
Chapter 2: Fleeing, staying and in-between: forced (im)mobilities in Ukraine 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
