Sheltering strangers : critical memoirs from hosting Ukrainian refugees /

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 limi...

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主要作者: Briggs, Daniel (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
在線閱讀:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18323792
書本目錄:
  • 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
  • Notes
  • 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
  • Notes
  • 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?
  • Notes
  • 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
  • Notes
  • 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
  • Notes
  • 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
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index