‘Home-making in Displacement among Ukrainians in Poland and Canada after February 2022’, Krakow

June 2023

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Eleonora Narvselius participated in a public presentation with Dr Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada) as part of the second summer institute ‘Witnessing the War in Ukraine’ (Venue: Cultural Institute Villa Decius I Krakow).  

Explorations of the ways in which Ukrainians in Poland and Canada perceive and make home allows us to juxtapose predominantly nation-state-centric approaches to home-making with more fluid understandings of home underpinned by multidirectional loyalties and trajectories of contemporary migrants that are in turn informed by the past. The aim of the analysis is to shift the focus onto migrant homes and home-making as cultural phenomena in their own right and to examine practice-oriented solutions that may advance social cohesion, solidarity practices, migrant incorporation and recognition of diversity in Europe and Canada.