Migration, Mobilities, and the Politics of Hostility and Hospitality
Klaudia and Natalia
Natalia Bloch took a broader comparative perspective, juxtaposing research on the reception of Ukrainian refugees with observations from the Polish-Belarusian border, in a paper entitled Who Is the Most Deserving Victim? The Racialised and Gendered Hierarchisation of Refugees in Private Hosting in Poland. The conference was an excellent opportunity to discuss our findings with a scholarly community primarily familiar with the Western European context, as well as to establish contacts that will no doubt lead to future collaboration.
On 23 June, Natalia Bloch, PI of our project, and Klaudia Kosicińska, post-doc, participated in a conference organised by the Migration and Mobilities Research Network at Edinburgh Napier University, entitled Migration, Mobilities, and the Politics of Hostility and Hospitality. Both researchers each delivered a paper — Klaudia Kosicińska addressed gender and class dynamics in private hosting of refugee women in Wrocław, drawing on the concept of hostipitality, in a presentation titled 'I Don't Really Like Cooking, But You Just Have To Make Borscht': Class and Gender During Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland After 2022.