In this episode, host Asia Tsisar speaks with social anthropologist Ruslana Koziienko about the importance of solidarity between displaced people. They discuss the Temporary Protection status, which displaced people from Ukraine were given in the EU at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Conversation explores the concept of fake generosity, which Ruslana suggests in her opinion piece Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement, and which discusses how certain forms of aid — intentionally or not — hinder meaningful exchange and solidarity between forcibly displaced people from different regions. Ruslana’s text also touches upon the special education programs developed to support Ukrainian students and scholars across Europe and how universities might overcome those divisions to create more inclusive and transformative environments.
This episode has two parts. This is the first one. The second part, in conversation with Dr. Zeynep Şahin Mencütek we try to place this problem in a broader context and examine the general trends of the erosion of protection for displaced people worldwide.
Both parts of this episode are already available on any platform where you get your podcasts.
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Ruslana Koziienko is a Ukrainian social anthropologist and PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University (Vienna). Her research interests include citizenship, gender, masculinities, and displacement. She is also part of the research group working on the project “Arrival" Infrastructures: Processes of Emplacement of Displaced People from Ukraine in Vienna, which was launched by the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Vienna) within its Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration. The project explores the response of the city of Vienna to the mass influx of displaced people from Ukraine.
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