Jun 2026· Central and Eastern European Migration Review· 1 citation· 20 references
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The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 forced many Ukrainians – including highly educated, middle-aged women with no previous migration experience – to migrate. As a result, they found themselves in liminality – suspended between past and future, old and new identities and different socio-political contexts; they are ‘no longer there’ (in Ukraine) and they are ‘not yet’ fully ‘here’ (in Poland). This article explores three different sources of this state among Ukrainian women: disrupted life paths, fractured identity and belonging tensions. The first source is related to the experience of war and forced migration, which has led to an existential crisis characterised by a sense of uncertainty, disorientation and limited agency. The second source is fractured identity, which involves an identity crisis manifested in self-perception dissonance, the reconfiguration of socio-professional roles and processes of self-redefinition. The final source is belonging tensions, which caused a belonging crisis marked by experiences of marginalisation and social exclusion by both Ukrainian and Polish society, which necessitates a constant renegotiation of social perception. This multifaceted crisis generates a vicious circle of liminality among migrant women which is challenging to overcome. This article demonstrates that liminality is a multidimensional, intersectional and dynamic process, characterised by continuous shifts and transformations.
Abstract: The Western World (especially Europe) is struggling to cope with one of the largest waves of human migration ever. Majority of the migrants are Muslims with traumatic experiences as a result of enduring wars, violence, and various forms of suffrage. The unique feature of this migration is the number of unaccompanied minor Muslim migrants with an unprecedented rate in human history. All these pose new challenges to European societies not least to accommodate the needs and meet the demands of Muslims for moral and religious education. While European education systems fundamentally rest on a rather monolithic worldview, inspired by Christianity and based on secularism, they need to adapt to the realities of the post migration era. The Muslim transnational communities in West complicate the matter even further as they pose new challenges in the notions of identity and belonging of the younger generation of Muslims in diaspora. The new mode of policy-making in the face of the migration and multiple transnational communities is to create and foster an education system to respond to the needs of Muslims in the West while enhancing the process of integration and teaching the western-style notion of citizenship. Sex education, religious extremism, terrorism, and pluralistic values are among the challenges that education systems in the West need to alter both in policy and practice.
Mulkan Siddik, Mangali Raghu· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
It is proven that a child’s "digital co-presence" with peers in Ukraine acts as an intergenerational buffer, significantly reducing maternal guilt complexes and adaptation stress, and a two-level model of constructing a "New Self" is conceptualized.
Tetyana Poverlyak, Liudmyla Lahuta· Metaverse Science, Society a...· 0 citations
What is the future like for young men who feel spatially and temporally stuck, like dozens of thousands who fled West Africa and reached Europe over the last decade, only to end up in the “waithood” of asylum reception? Is there any meaningful destination ahead of them? On the surface, their social and legal precarity is hard to reconcile with future aspirations, let alone anticipations. However, the alluring vision of a future “good life”, which informed their migration pathways, may survive the clash between the linear, accelerated time of migration and the circular, static time of asylum. As my ethnography in a reception centre of Northern Italy shows, meaningful traces of the future emerge across the residents' fragmented narratives, practices, and material cultures. These are multi‐sensory signals about the possibility of a certain future, and assertions about its moral worth. Unveiling them casts light on the subjective understanding of the future on multiple scales, as an aspired gendered transition to autonomy and adulthood. It also shows that anticipation matters, even when it only draws on an implicit register of emotions, atmospheres, and daily routines. It is a way of preparing oneself for an unpredictable future – and of coping and making sense of the suspended temporality of asylum.
Paolo Boccagni· Population, Space and Place· 0 citations
This article builds on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Bosnian Roma families living in the Roman peripheries. The discussion gravitates around two different but connected circumstances: an eviction of an informal settlement occurred in 2007 and a children birthday party celebrated in an authorized camp in 2023. The article explores changes and continuities in the governance of the Roma in Rome and highlights the use of heterogeneous biopolitical technologies that trap the Roma in a blend of inclusion and exclusion, intervention and non-intervention, care, repression and neglect. It also explores multiple and diversified forms of Roma resistance, insubordination, and subversion, produced in grey spaces of urban (in)formality and (il)legality. The body is used as the lens to read the political workings of the bureaucratic State and those of racialised actors it relegates to the margins and to reflect on how power and subversion meet, clash, but also ambiguously blur into one another.
There is a longstanding and global history of fierce opposition to
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migration across regions. Yet despite the salience of this issue, there is a relative dearth of scholarship on the politics around domestic population movements. This paper critically engages three interrelated concepts in conversation: nativism, sons of the soil and autochthony. This comparative conceptual analysis considers how varied expressions of hostility towards internal migrants can manifest across diverse geographical and sociopolitical contexts in the Global North and Global South. The analysis highlights the need to bridge parallel literatures and empirical worlds as this reveals the diverse ways in which internal migration dynamics can fuel contentious politics of belonging. Though conceptually distinct, we argue these concepts similarly describe how exclusionary language targets internal migrants by emphasizing a hierarchy of belonging based on place‐based identities when ‘natives’ fear future marginalization vis‐à‐vis migrant ‘outsiders’.
Isabelle Côté, Matthew I. Mitchell, Catherine Xhardez· Nations and Nationalism· 0 citations
This study aims to analyze the relevance of Jacques Attali’s concept of devenir soi (becoming oneself) in responding to global social transformations during the 2015–2025 period. This inquiry is important because the last decade has been marked by interconnected crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, climate change, and the rise of digital alienation that has influenced individual processes of self-formation. The study employs a qualitative approach using a critical philosophical inquiry design and a critical literature review method. The data consist of Jacques Attali’s works, literature on Buddhist philosophy, and contemporary studies on polycrisis and social media. The findings indicate that the challenge of becoming oneself in 2025 is significantly more complex than it was in 2015. These challenges emerge in two primary dimensions: external obstacles in the form of pandemics, geopolitical conflicts, and climate change that generate various forms of structural alienation, and internal obstacles in the form of digital identity performativity, technological addiction, attention fragmentation, and dependence on external validation. The study further finds that key Buddhist principles, particularly pratītyasamutpāda (interdependence), karuṇā (compassion), and anātman (non-self), provide relevant ethical and psychological frameworks for responding to these forms of alienation. The implications of this study suggest that self-realization in the age of polycrisis requires relational awareness, ethical responsibility, and reflective capacity rather than individual freedom alone. The originality of this study lies in its critical reinterpretation of devenir soi through a synthesis of Jacques Attali’s thought and Buddhist philosophy to explain self-realization in the context of contemporary polycrisis and digital alienation
M. Pilkington· SMARATUNGGA JURNAL OF EDUCAT...· 0 citations