Laboratory of Urban and Regional Migration Policies; Migration Policies Research Unit of the Centre of Migration Research of the University of Warsaw (CMR UW)
and the Union of Polish Metropolises have the pleasure of inviting you to
CMR Webinar “Ukrainian Cities at the Forefront of the Response to the post-2022 Internal Displacement”, 12.01.2024, 14:00-16:00 CET
This event is part of our CMR Migration & cities webinar series. It will feature five distinguished researchers and experts from Ukraine who will discuss the response of Ukrainian cities related to the arrival of internally displaced people (IDPs). The speakers will discuss the main needs, challenges, and ways to address them developed in the Ukrainian urban context. The webinar is aimed at the wider international community of researchers and practitioners. It will also facilitate networking with Ukrainian experts and create future cooperation opportunities.
Description:
It has been almost two years since the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, that triggered the largest forced migration in post-World War-2 Europe. While much public attention has been paid to the multilevel responses across the European Union to the forced migration from Ukraine, not much is known about how Ukrainian cities responded to the arrival of internally displaced people. This webinar aims to give a voice to the local experts from Ukraine and learn about the challenges and responses across Ukrainian cities to the arrival of displaced persons. We will also discuss future long-term solutions to urban internal displacements.
Moderators:
Ivan Kozachenko, CMR UW; Tetiana Shkoda, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, CMR UW
Speakers:
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Viktoriya Sereda – 2022/2023 Senior Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Director of the project “Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory”; Senior Researcher at the National Academy of Science, Ukraine; Professor at the Department of Sociology, Ukrainian Catholic University
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Kostyantyn Mezentsev – Professor and the Head of the Department of Economic and Social Geography, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
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Maryna Pashkovska – Deputy Director in the Department of Education and Science of Regional State Administration, Rivne, Ukraine
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Olga Kuzmuk – PhD, Faculty of History at the Political Science and National Security, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Ukraine
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Iryna Pylypenko – Chairwoman of the Council on IDPs at the Volyn Regional Military Administration, Ukraine
Organisers:
Marta Pachocka, CMR UW, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Karolina Podgórska, CMR UW, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin; Karolina Łukasiewicz, CMR UW; Ivan Kozachenko, CMR UW; Tetiana Shkoda, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman, CMR UW; Ewa Cichocka, CMR UW