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2026 EN
Dunlop Emily
How do efforts to reduce ethnic inequality in schooling interact with narratives of inequality and past grievances in schools after ethnicity-based conflict? In this paper, I analyse interviews with 114 youth in Burundi to explore the intersection of these narratives given a power-sharing agreement and changes in group status in post-war Burundi. I show that despite government efforts, narratives of exclusion and inequality in the past persist, and have become more complex. This study has implications for our understanding of the role of redressing education inequalities in short- and long-term peacebuilding processes.
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2026 EN
Malyarenko Tetyana · Kormych Borys
The Russian citizenship policy toward Ukrainian citizens, both in Russia and in the occupied Ukrainian territories, underwent significant transformation during periods of grey zone conflict and conventional war. We argue that the citizenship policy, which manifests itself in ‘passportization,’ is a function of Russian military—political tactics on the battlefield and the changing priorities of its policy of entrenchment in occupied territories. Russia’s citizenship policy is a comprehensive set of direct and indirect mechanisms that encourage Ukrainians to obtain Russian citizenship, which, in the long-term perspective, represents an obstacle to any attempts at de-occupation and reintegration of territories with Ukraine.
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2026 EN
Kurtović Larisa
In the winter of 2010, on the two-year anniversary of the first major series of civic protests that followed the end of the Bosnian war, a group of Sarajevan activists put together a curious live sculpture meant as a reenactment—and reinterpretation—of Delacroix’ famous nineteenth-century painting Liberty Leading the People . This public performance represented an ironic play on both the socialist past and the promised democratic, European future. This paper considers how this particular satirical intervention can help us understand the pervasive popular disappointment with the fragmented, internationally managed post-war state, by developing the concept of metapolitical critique.
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2026 EN
Fakhoury Tamirace
How do semi-authoritarian regimes manage dissent and how does their protest management repertoire deter and spark contention? This paper looks at Lebanon’s post-war system as an instance of authoritarian rule that relies on various techniques of power, including political performances, to manage contention. Building on a dramaturgical approach, I focus on three performances that government players have deployed to govern dissent during the 2019 uprising: Enacting unresponsiveness, staging ‘spectral dangers’, and scripting alternative crises. Research on how these performances shape contention is crucial to exploring how the regime re-engineers its resilience while activists wrestle with the politics of sectarian power-sharing.
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2026 EN
Havlin Tetiana
This contribution examines the complex dynamics of war-induced mobilities, focusing on the Russo-Ukrainian war’s impact on human movement and immobility. Drawing on theories of necropolitics, regimes of mobility, and mobility justice, the study examines how war compels some individuals to flee while immobilizing others, creating significant theoretical and methodological challenges. The analysis highlights the uneven scholarly attention given to different forms of mobility, such as refugees and internally displaced persons, compared to less visible movements like deportation, smuggling, human trafficking, and war imprisonment. The article also investigates how regimes of mobility are shaped by and, in turn, influence international relations, with a particular focus on the policies governing movement across borders. Through case studies from Ukraine and Russia, the contribution provides a comparative understanding of the diverse and often underexplored effects of modern warfare on civilian populations.
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2026 EN
Lapshyna Iryna
Currently, the situation of Ukrainians in Germany and generally the EU is determined by a transitory environment of a Russia’s war against Ukraine with an uncertain outcome, a temporary migration status with an uncertain prospect and an integration process of uncertain results all on the backdrop of often transnational individual strategies. Uncertainty is at the core of all these parameters. This paper investigates how Ukrainian forced migrants in Germany deal with the stress of uncertainty and specifically the complex process of migration decision-making. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study of Ukrainian forced migrants in Germany I focus on the uncertainties they experience in political, economic, social and linguistic domains. The paper identifies multiple drivers at play such as the duration of the war, prospects of post-war reconstruction, the well-being of family members, the integration process, the future perspectives of the children. Furthermore, I explore whether transnational strategies can be understood as a response to these uncertainties. The choice is not necessarily a simple one between returning or staying, but a combination of both worlds - the Ukrainian and the new world in Germany - which means establishing a transnational pattern of mobility and living under conditions of uncertainty.
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2026 EN
Kushnirovich na · Kuznetsova Irina · Mikheieva Oksana
This research challenges the dichotomy between voluntary and involuntary migration, highlighting the role of pre-departure experiences in everyday life and labour market outcomes in the host country. Focusing on a qualitative study among Ukrainians who immigrated to Israel between 2014 and 2020 and comparing experiences of those who moved from war-torn zones and government-controlled areas, the paper emphasizes the impact of displacement on vulnerabilities. It argues that granting citizenship does not shield repatriates from war-torn territories from precarious employment in Israel. Compared with other repatriates, they face significant challenges due to language barriers, lack of pre-arrival capital, and mental health issues stemming from war and displacement. Immigrants from war-torn zones are initially more disadvantaged than others and, without special support, the effects of their initial disadvantage become cumulative. It calls for more inclusive integration policies that address trauma and provide tailored support, including mental health interventions and professional training. Recognizing the unique needs of these repatriates is crucial for their long-term well-being and successful integration.
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2026 EN
Szewczyk Monika I. · Jóźwiak Ignacy · Mirga-Wójtowicz Elżbieta
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Russian full-scale military aggression against Ukraine in 2022 entailed mass departures of people fleeing the war-torn country. The arrival of forced migrants to Poland was met by an unprecedented grassroots mobilisation of the society in their support. However, not everyone received the same welcome. The experiences of Ukrainian Roma arriving in Poland as forced migrants often point to discrimination and antigypsyism from the majority population and Ukrainians alike. This is where the Polish Roma, who experienced decades of discrimination and international resettlement, stepped in, claiming rights on behalf of Ukrainian Roma. The article analyses the mobilisation of Polish Roma in support of Ukrainian Roma arriving to Poland through the lenses of citizenship and enactments of citizenship, understood here as both claims to have rights and right to have claims. This social mobilisation is the continuation of the decades-long Roma struggles for equality, recognition and citizens’ rights. Seen through these lenses, the authors analyse the enactments of citizenship through claims to have rights and the right to have claims in various acts of safeguarding the rights of Ukrainian Roma refugees by the Polish Roma.
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2026 EN
Yusupova Guzel
This paper is focused on the forced mechanisms of military enlistment for participation in Russia’s war in Ukraine. It argues that the structures of spatial mobility determine the greater vulnerability of rural dwellers and other lower strata of the population to coercive military enlistment by the state. It also argues that multi-dimensional barriers to spatial mobility contribute to the intersectional vulnerability when, for example, being an ethnic minority also often overlaps with being a rural resident, which in turn results in fewer opportunities to avoid military conscription. The author’s attention to broader social forces shows that the decision to sign a military contract during wartime is often a forced measure. Combining digital ethnography, expert interviews, regression analysis and autoethnography she explains how the intersections of several forms of inequalities contribute to vulnerability to the forced military enlistment.
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2026 EN
Jaroszewicz Marta · Jakniūnaitė Dovilė · Adey Peter
The article investigates the role of trains and railway infrastructure in Ukraine as a critical component of the emergency mobility of Ukraine’s population following the Russian full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. Applying the concept of viapolitics, it explores how the railways became more than just a means of transport during the war, instead symbolising solidarity, struggle, privilege, and hope. The research situates Ukrainian railway mobilities within post-colonial and post-socialist contexts, examining how the infrastructures, rooted in Soviet-era practices, have been repurposed amid military aggression. Drawing on data from news reports, human rights organisations, and personal testimonies, the paper analyses the complex and multifaceted role of rail transport in the war context. The article reveals how emergency mobility, mediated through railways and political action, brings together spatial and temporal dimensions – linking Ukraine’s Soviet past, post-socialist independence, renewed Russian imperialism, and aspirations for a European future. These historical and geopolitical layers intertwine with the population’s self-organisation and resilience, while also colliding within the railway’s diverse vehicular and infrastructural meanings of mobility.