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Ukraine as a Migration Nexus

Oleksii Chebotarov, Viktoriya Sereda (eds)

Ukraine as a Migration Nexus

Perspectives on Historical and Current Population Movements

This OER project examines Ukraine as a central hub in global migration and mobility, offering critical perspectives on both historical and contemporary population movements. The volume brings together case studies focused on the migration dynamics within Ukraine and its surrounding territories, integrating these with broader global migration processes. The authors critically engage with migration studies methodologies, offering fresh, empirical insights into issues like displacement, migration governance, and identity formation in the context of Ukraine's socio-political landscape. By combining historical narratives with modern theoretical approaches, the book explores how migration has shaped and continues to shape, the region’s cultural, political, and social fabric. It provides an innovative contribution to migration research, highlighting the intersection of mobility, belonging, and political contexts, particularly within East Central Europe. This collection challenges traditional migration frameworks and invites a reevaluation of established migration paradigms through the lens of Ukrainian lands.
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Editors

Oleksii Chebotarov

Oleksii Chebotarov is a Researcher of the Department of Conservation, Archaeology, and History at the University of Oslo and the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen. Previously, he worked as a research fellow and lecturer at the Central European University, the University of Vienna, the University of St. Gallen, New Europe College in Bucharest, the Center for Urban History in Lviv, and the Ukrainian Catholic University. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Studies from the University of St. Gallen in 2021. His primary research interests include migration and borderland studies, Jewish history, digital humanities and environmental history.

Viktoriya Sereda

Viktoriya Sereda is a Senior Fellow and Project Director of the Forum Transregionale Studien, Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS) and Professor of Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University. She has taught sociology at the Ivan Franko Lviv National University and Central European University. Sereda has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Basel and a fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg at the University of Jena and Harvard Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Her research focuses on migration, memory, and identity in Ukraine.
Title
Ukraine as a Migration Nexus
Subtitle
Perspectives on Historical and Current Population Movements
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ISBN
9789048574384
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eBook PDF
Language
English
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Discipline
Social and Political Sciences
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Foreword by Thomas Faist
Introduction by Oleksii Chebotarov and Viktoriya Sereda
Module 1 The Contemporary Perspective
Unit 1. Ethical and Methodological Challenges: Researching in times of War and Displacement - Viktoriya Sereda and Oksana Mikheieva

Unit 2. Visual Politics: Constructing the Representation of Refugeehood and Displacement - Alina Mozolevska (Student Assistant: Olya Vaskovets)
Unit 3. Migration Data: Possibilities, Limitations and Politicisation - Lidia Kuzemska (Student Assistant: Eduard Lopushniak)
Unit 4. Volunteering in Wartime: a hybrid response - Oksana Mikheieva
Unit 5. Defining Refugees: Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century East Central Europe - Oleksii Chebotarov
Unit 6. Tourism as a Practice: An Instrument of Nation-Building - Vladyslava Moskalets
Unit 7. NGOs and Migration Governance: Migration Processes in Late Imperial Eastern Europe - Oleksii Chebotarov
Unit 8. Return Migration: Crimean Tatars from Soviet Exile to Their Homeland - Martin-Oleksandr Kisly

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