Policy Press
Sheltering Strangers
About this book
This book documents the intimate lives of Ukrainians as they fled their homeland in search of a safe and stable place to stay. The critical memoirs follow the lives of 16 Ukrainian families in a small Spanish town near Madrid and the local families that volunteered to host them during a time of limited state support and an absence of a clear EU plan for the refugees. Through first-hand testimonies, social media messages and photographs, the book reveals the scarring realities of the Ukrainians’ upheaval, displacement and trauma alongside the well-meaning sacrifices made by the host families which quickly mutate into moralistic and meritocratic expectations of their new guests. In doing so, the book offers a vivid portrayal of how the tensions of war and displacement play out in real life in real time.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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Acknowledgements
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The end at the beginning
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Escaping the ‘occupiers’
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‘We are not refugees! We are occupiers!’
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Work, study and cultural integration
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Strained relations and trending ‘solidarity’
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Pastures new and war sirens old
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In search of Slava Ukraїni
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References
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Index
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